226 West George Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 July 1988. 1 related planning application.

226 West George Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
21 July 1988
Address
226 West George Street, Glasgow, G2 2PQ
OS grid reference
NS 586 656
Coordinates
55.86305, -4.26071
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

206 West George Street in Glasgow is a block of classical terraced houses built around 1830. The building consists of three and four storeys with a basement, featuring three bays for each inner house and five bays at the ends, which are likely converted into flats. The western end has six bays, with the second bay from the south being blind, while the eastern return has nine bays, with the first bay from the south being blind at the ground and first floors. There have been various alterations and additions over the years.

The exterior is finished in polished ashlar with a channelled basement. The entrances are located on the left side of the central houses, with central entries at the ends, each accessed by steps. The central bays have simple pilastered and corniced doorpieces. Notable features include a projecting Roman Ionic portico at No 204 and a semi-engaged Roman Ionic portico at No 226. No 114 West Campbell Street has a pilastered, corniced doorpiece with a double entry and fanlights. The windows are sash and case within architraves, with some featuring 12-pane glazing on West Campbell Street. The ground floor windows, altered at No 208, have corbelled cills and corniced block pediments with antefixae at No 204, while the second-floor windows at No 216 are plain. The building has been raised later, featuring two and three-light windows in the centre house and some dormers, along with a cornice on the first floor.

The eastern pavilion has been raised and extended to the rear, featuring a consoled segmentally pedimented, architraved entrance, and a consoled, pedimented window above in the third bay from the north. The second-floor windows have recessed architraves that drop to the first-floor cornice, with moulded cills and panelled aprons, a design repeated in Wellington Street, which also has two-light windows in the second bay from the south. The window arrangement is consistent across all floors in Wellington Street, with an anta mullion window at the first floor. The building has a plain eaves entablature and a modillion cornice.

On the elevation to West Campbell Street, there is a dormer and a reduced, corniced wallhead stack. A single-storey service wing has been altered into a shop with a segmentally pedimented doorpiece.

The interiors include a corniced vestibule and a column hall screen at No 204.

Local climate

226 West George 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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