Scottish Power Building (built as Wallace Scott Tailoring Institute), Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Industrial building. 2 related planning applications.
Scottish Power Building (built as Wallace Scott Tailoring Institute), Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- carved-oriel-tarn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow South MP: Gordon McKee (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Industrial building
- OS grid reference
- NS 581 609
- Coordinates
- 55.82109, -4.26599
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Scottish Power Building, originally known as the Wallace Scott Tailoring Institute, was designed by Sir J J Burnet and Norman Dick and constructed between 1913 and 1916, with an extension added from 1919 to 1922. It was initially described as a "garden factory on American inspired lines."
This monumental building features a four to five-storey block arranged around a rectangular courtyard. It has a frame construction with red brick cladding and ashlar detailing. The ground floor is treated as a raised basement, with giant pilaster strips above. Originally, there were polychrome panels between the floors, but the windows have since been altered to full depth. The building has a flat roof, and there is a main steel access bridge to the northeast, designed by engineers Kyle, Dennison and Laing in 1913.
The extensive formal gardens surrounding the building have also undergone alterations.
Local climate
Scottish Power Building (built as Wallace Scott Tailoring Institute), 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 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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 — 2 applications
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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