53 Southpark Avenue, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 January 1985. 1 related planning application.
53 Southpark Avenue, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- ragged-quartz-sorrel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1985
- OS grid reference
- NS 570 668
- Coordinates
- 55.87385, -4.28615
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
55 Southpark Avenue in Glasgow is a building that began construction in 1867-68. It features two storeys, a basement, and an attic, arranged as a terrace of three-bay houses. The exterior is finished in polished ashlar, with the ground floor channelled. Each house is pilastered, and the entrance doorpiece is located at the top of steps that oversail the basement area, with an architraved window above. The three northern houses mirror the three southern houses.
At the first floor, there are three-light oriel windows supported by dentilled corbels. The windows are sash and case with plate glass. A balustraded parapet sits over the cornice, which bows over the oriels. The gabled dormers include one at No. 59 that has a segmental head. The building features tall, corniced chimney stacks and is complemented by cast-iron railings and piers, along with a coped boundary wall.
The rear elevation is constructed of snecked rubble with droved ashlar canted bays.
Local climate
53 Southpark Avenue, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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