Library, 30 Leslie Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 August 1984. Library.

Library, 30 Leslie Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
mired-granite-sedge
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow South West MP: Dr Zubir Ahmed (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 August 1984
Type
Library
OS grid reference
NS 577 632
Coordinates
55.8411, -4.27284
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The building is a public library located at 30 Leslie Street in Glasgow, designed by Thomas Gilmour of the City Architect's Department, with revisions by his superior A B MacDonald. It features an Edwardian baroque style with sculptured details and is primarily two storeys tall. The library occupies a corner site and has bold end pavilions, each with windows set in giant round-arched panels that reach into open-bottomed pediments. The main front facing Leslie Street is symmetrical, with paired inner doors that share a double-arched hood, a colonnade on the first floor, and a large decorative roof ventilator above. The exterior is finished in polished red ashlar, with original glazing that is mainly sash windows, and it has a slate roof. To the left of the pavilion, there is a single-storey, three-bay range facing Kenmure Street. The interior was altered in 1926 and contains leaded glass by John C Hall.

Local climate

Library, 30 Leslie Street, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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