Kingston Engine Works, 71 Milnpark Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 June 1986. Engine works. 1 related planning application.

Kingston Engine Works, 71 Milnpark Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow South West MP: Dr Zubir Ahmed (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 June 1986
Type
Engine works
Address
Kingston Engine Works, 71 Milnpark Street, Glasgow, G41 1EG
OS grid reference
NS 572 643
Coordinates
55.85152, -4.28198
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Kingston Engine Works, located at 71 Milnpark Street in Glasgow, was founded in 1866 and rebuilt in 1873. This building is a three-storey block measuring 19 by 4 bays, constructed of red brick with yellow brick window margins and cornice, featuring ashlar rusticated quoins and cills. It has ornate tie-plates and a large basket-arched door on Milnpark Street, which has rusticated dressings and a keystone but is now partly blocked. The ground floor has an arched door and all but eight windows are blocked. The first floor contains arched windows with iron frames and fanlights, with nine southern windows being hinged and ten northern windows fixed, all of which are original. The third floor features timber-framed windows. The building has a dentil cornice and a corrugated roof.

Inside, the nine southern bays are three-storey, supported by iron cylindrical columns. The ten northern bays front a two-storey ground floor buttressed erecting shop, which includes an in-situ travelling crane and a tall brick open arcade.

On Milnpark Street, there are lower three-storey offices that are four by four bays, made of red and yellow brick with iron-framed windows on the ground and second floors. The offices feature an aedicule pedimented doorway, ashlar quoins, a dentil cornice, and two polychrome wallhead stacks, topped with a slate roof. An oriel at the rear faces into the corrugated fitting shop.

Local climate

Kingston Engine Works, 71 Milnpark 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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