Steps And Retaining Wall, Kelvinside Terrace West, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Retaining wall, staircase.
Steps And Retaining Wall, Kelvinside Terrace West, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-tin-azure
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Retaining wall, staircase
- OS grid reference
- NS 572 674
- Coordinates
- 55.87924, -4.28415
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The structure is a large curved retaining wall and staircase built around 1872, likely designed by Alexander Thomson. It is located below the roadway of Kelvinside Terrace in Glasgow, with a wide staircase to the west that leads from the former Queen Margaret Bridge, which was demolished around 1971, to the east of the new Queen Margaret Bridge.
The retaining wall features battered stugged and squared masonry with an ashlar coping. There is a blind arcade with engaged stugged pilasters on the eastern side of the steps. In the center of the wall, a short colonnade consists of Tuscan columns with flared capitals that support an ashlar entablature with detailed cornice work. Coped square piers flank the colonnade. The eastern section of the wall has a lugged ashlar frame and a corbel table, topped with plain cast iron railings and coped rectangular-plan piers.
The staircase comprises 66 steps, bordered by ashlar-coped stugged balustrade walls, with a plain cast-iron handrail running down the center of the steps.
Local climate
Steps And Retaining Wall, Kelvinside Terrace West, 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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