North Office, St Rollox Railway Works, 140 Springburn Road, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 June 1992. Office block.

North Office, St Rollox Railway Works, 140 Springburn Road, Glasgow

WRENN ID
high-frieze-barley
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North East MP: Maureen Burke (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 June 1992
Type
Office block
OS grid reference
NS 604 667
Coordinates
55.87365, -4.23273
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The North Office at St Rollox Railway Works, located at 140 Springburn Road in Glasgow, was built in 1887. This two-storey office block features a long side facing the street and is constructed of red brick, accented with contrasting yellow brick dressings. The roofs have been updated with modern tiles. The building has six pilastered bays, each with grouped round-headed openings, and a pend on the left side, topped with a deep parapet.

Local climate

North Office, St Rollox Railway Works, 140 Springburn Road, 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 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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