City Bakeries, 15 Clarendon Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 July 1988. Industrial building.
City Bakeries, 15 Clarendon Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- shifting-shingle-sparrow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1988
- Type
- Industrial building
- OS grid reference
- NS 581 667
- Coordinates
- 55.87297, -4.26863
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
City Bakeries, located at 15 Clarendon Street in Glasgow, is a B-listed building designed by architect J M Biggar, with construction starting in 1924 and completed in 1929. The building was reconstructed and extended in 1936 by W J B Wright, with work taking place from 1936 to 1937. It underwent conversion in 1991. This six to seven-storey asymmetrical industrial structure is built from reinforced concrete, featuring red sandstone dressings and red brick cladding.
The design includes a narrow stair bay in the second-to-last southwest bay, flanked by pilasters that are corbelled from the first floor and rise above a pediment over an arched window. To the left, there is a plain outer bay with bipartite windows, while the three functionally detailed bays to the right are divided by plain masonry strips. The outer right bay features a segmental loading bay at ground level and a five-storey canted oriel above, which is supported by masonry piers and topped with a mannered crowning segmental pediment. The side elevations showcase prominently detailed stacks and decorative masonry panels.
The building has a variety of glazing, including small-pane sash windows, with lower sash plate-glass in the oriel. The extensive rear range reveals greater areas of exposed concrete in some blocks, and the building has a flat roof.
Local climate
City Bakeries, 15 Clarendon Street, 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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