174, 176, 178 Byres Road, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 February 1989. Tenement. 8 related planning applications.

174, 176, 178 Byres Road, Glasgow

WRENN ID
third-corbel-thunder
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
6 February 1989
Type
Tenement
Address
174, 176, 178 Byres Road, Glasgow, G12 8SN
OS grid reference
NS 565 669
Coordinates
55.87455, -4.29412
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

174, 176, and 178 Byres Road in Glasgow is a classical tenement building dating from around 1862. It features three stories and a curving corner design, with modern shops located on the ground floor along Byres Road and an attic that includes dormers at the rear. The facade consists of 17 unequal bays, with the eastern bay on Ashton Road being canted. The seventh bay is tripartite and is positioned above the entrance to No. 1 Ashton Road. The building is constructed of polished ashlar and has sash and case windows set within architraves. The windows along Byres Road are six-pane, while the curved section and those on Ashton Road have three panes with horizontal glazing bars. There are arched entrances at Nos. 1 and 3 Ashton Road, which feature cornices and guttae consoled details. The ground floor has a cornice, and the first-floor windows are also corniced, with a tripartite window above the entry at No. 1 Ashton Road. The building is topped with a plain eaves entablature and has corniced axial stacks.

Local climate

174, 176, 178 Byres Road, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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