118-120 Osborne Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 March 1977.
118-120 Osborne Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- narrow-timber-rye
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1977
- OS grid reference
- NS 593 648
- Coordinates
- 55.85653, -4.24917
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
33-43 Stockwell Street in Glasgow is a building designed by Frank Burnet and Boston architects between 1923 and 1929. It features warehouses and shops on a large corner site, standing five stories tall with a sunken basement. The building has a nine-bay elevation facing Trongate, with a canted bay at the corner to Stockwell Street. The Stockwell Street elevation consists of 21 bays arranged in a pattern of 8-8-5, while there is a six-bay angled elevation to Osborne Street.
The ground floor is made of polished pink granite, while the rest of the walls are constructed from red polished sandstone, with channeling on the first floor. The structure has a steel frame with reinforced concrete floors and metal-framed windows, topped with a flat roof.
All elevations are similarly detailed, although the Osborne Street side is simpler. On the second, third, and fourth floors, windows are flanked by giant pilasters that support a deep cornice above the fourth floor, featuring cast-iron balconies on the fifth. The windows are metal-framed tripartites, typically with 15-pane small glazing. A parapet above the fifth floor steps up at the end bays, and the canted angle bay includes an attic storey topped with an octagonal copper dome.
The main entrance is located on Trongate (No 177) at the center of the building. This entrance bay is recessed and narrower, featuring a central granite doorway with decorative consoles that support seated statues flanking a festooned oculus. The elevation facing Osborne Street shares similar detailing but is less ornate, lacking the giant order pilasters.
Local climate
118-120 Osborne Street, 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.