Cumbrae House, 5-15 Bridge Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1996. Office. 5 related planning applications.
Cumbrae House, 5-15 Bridge Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- rusted-storey-nightshade
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1996
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Cumbrae House, 5-15 Bridge Street, Glasgow, G5 9JP
- OS grid reference
- NS 587 646
- Coordinates
- 55.85427, -4.25774
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Cumbrae House, located at 5-15 Bridge Street in Glasgow, is a three-storey Art Deco office building with a set-back attic, designed by Launcelot H Ross in 1937-1938 and restored by the Houston Bryce Partnership in 1988. The building features a steel frame with concrete details by Considere Construction, large windows divided by piers, and glazed tile cladding. The exterior is adorned with cream tiles that are separated from a black base course by a pale blue band. The first and second floor windows are united vertically with a panelled metal fascia in between. A canted panelled corner includes a corbelled tower that supports a flagpole.
The west elevation facing Bridge Street is symmetrical with five bays, featuring a central entrance where the fascia steps up over the Art Deco lettering that reads "CUMBRAE HOUSE."
The south elevation on Carlton Court has a shallow butterfly plan, highlighted by a tall central stair tower with three narrow vertical glazing strips. This is flanked by a four-bay wing to the west and a two-bay wing to the east, the latter of which includes a door and a row of small windows at ground level.
The ground floor has modern plate glass windows, while the upper floors feature metal multi-pane casements. The interior consists largely of renewed modern office spaces.
Local climate
Cumbrae House, 5-15 Bridge 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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