2-16 Trongate, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 September 1989. Bank. 8 related planning applications.
2-16 Trongate, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-cobble-brook
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 September 1989
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- 2-16 Trongate, Glasgow, G1 5ES
- OS grid reference
- NS 596 649
- Coordinates
- 55.85701, -4.24381
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
2-16 Trongate in Glasgow is a five-storey neo-classical building designed by A Graham Henderson in 1913 and built in 1922. It features a curving elevation with a polished ashlar facade and polished grey granite at the ground floor. The building has a total of five bays, with slightly wider end bays and a single wide angled corner bay on the south side. There is an angled bay on the left and a single bay facing Trongate, with the ground floor housing a bank entrance.
The windows on the ground and first floors are tripartite, featuring timber mullions and transoms, all with small-pane glazing. The second and third floors continue the curving main elevation and the wide flanking single bays, showcasing giant Ionic columns in antis. The windows on the second floor are consoled and corniced. Above the third floor, there is an eaves cornice with a cast-iron balustrade supported by die piers. The fourth (attic) floor has wide windows and a deep parapet topped with an ashlar die balustrade and urn finials. The angled bay includes a wrought-iron balcony at the second niche of the fourth floor. Additionally, there is a moulded cornice above the first floor.
Local climate
2-16 Trongate, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- 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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