250 St Vincent Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 July 1988. Commercial building. 2 related planning applications.

250 St Vincent Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
weathered-tracery-crimson
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
21 July 1988
Type
Commercial building
Address
250 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, G2 5SH
OS grid reference
NS 584 655
Coordinates
55.8625, -4.26388
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

250 St Vincent Street in Glasgow is a substantial five-storey building with a basement, originally built as a hotel around 1882 and later remodeled internally. This classical structure features a nine by nine bay layout, with a three by two bay corner section that is set forward. The building is constructed of ashlar stone, with a channelled appearance at the ground floor.

A central portico is supported by coupled Corinthian columns and features a cornice with a solid parapet. Above this, there is a segmental pedimented aedicule with scroll consoles and a sculpted tympanum. The windows are sash and case, primarily set within architraves. The canted bay on the corner rises from the ground to the first floor, showcasing elaborately architraved windows at the ground level and column mullions at the first floor, topped with an independent modillion cornice and a blocking course.

On the ground floor, there are six windows facing St Vincent Street, which have a recessed, fluted frieze that continues for two bays along Douglas Street. The remaining seven windows on Douglas Street are plain. The first-floor windows are set on a cill band and feature console cornices, with aprons on the windows in the northern Douglas Street bays. The second-floor windows have a cill band and are consoled and corniced, with tripartite designs above the canted bay, topped with segmental pediments. The fourth-floor windows have lugged architraves. The western section of the building has a mansard roof, and the second bay from the north on Douglas Street is blind.

Local climate

250 St Vincent 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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