Canal Restuarant, 300 Bearsden, Temple, Glasgow is a Grade C listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 November 1992. Office block. 1 related planning application.

Canal Restuarant, 300 Bearsden, Temple, Glasgow

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow West MP: Patricia Ferguson (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 November 1992
Type
Office block
OS grid reference
NS 549 693
Coordinates
55.8951, -4.32185
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Canal Restaurant, located at 300 Bearsden in Temple, Glasgow, is a Modern Movement office block designed by George Laird of John Laird and Son around 1938. This building features two and three stories, with part of it functioning as a basement due to the road's elevation. It is constructed of red brick and includes concrete lintel bands.

The northwest elevation showcases a two-storey, three-bay entrance block that is elevated above the road, with a storey below. The central bay features a brick porch with brick reeding around a chamfered surround, leading to a recessed door accessed by steps. Above this entrance is a flat concrete canopy that supports an engaged circular tower with a tall window, topped with a concrete coping ring and a parapet. Regular windows flank the entrance.

On the southwest and northeast elevations, the taller entrance block extends towards the front, featuring an oculus on the upper floor to the southwest and a narrow window to the northeast. The central section has four lower, three-storey bays with paired windows at the rear, windows at the front, and narrower windows in the penultimate bays. The southeast elevation includes a sliding machinery door at the center of the ground floor, with a row of four narrow windows above, grouped to the left.

The windows are designed with horizontal panes and metal glazing, featuring three panes on top with a pivoting pane in the center. The entrance has boarded timber, two-leaf doors.

The interior was not seen in 1996.

Local climate

Canal Restuarant, 300 Bearsden, Temple, 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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