Hurlet House, Barrhead Road, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. House. 1 related planning application.

Hurlet House, Barrhead Road, Glasgow

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow South West MP: Dr Zubir Ahmed (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 December 1970
Type
House
Address
Hurlet House, Barrhead Road, Glasgow, G53 7TW
OS grid reference
NS 515 610
Coordinates
55.8195, -4.37032
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Hurlet House, located on Barrhead Road in Glasgow, is a two-storey, three-bay house said to have been built in 1763. It is reputed to have been the home of Charles Macintosh, the inventor of the waterproof coat. The house features a central door with a re-used surround, shallow recessed single-storey and attic single-bay flanking wings. The exterior is constructed from coursed, squared, and part diagonally-tooled rubble, with droved ashlar dressings and flag margins. It has small-paned sash windows, straight skews, end stacks, and slate roofs, with dormers on the wings. The asymmetrical roofline at the rear is created by mostly 19th-century additions, and the central raised gabled bay contains a stair. The west flank of the west wing is built of droved ashlar and has an iron hook set above the attic window, which is said to have been used for bringing Macintosh's chemicals into his workshop.

Inside, the house contains panelling that has been re-used from Curling Hall in Largs. Additionally, there is a detached rubble-built and slated outbuilding to the east, which features a panel in the south gable-head inscribed with the words, "12 houses were / built here and / the Hurlet Hillpl-/anted in ye year 1777."

Local climate

Hurlet House, Barrhead Road, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 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 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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