57-59 Glassford Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 October 1985. Warehouse. 3 related planning applications.
57-59 Glassford Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- rough-mortar-jackdaw
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1985
- Type
- Warehouse
- Address
- 57-59 Glassford Street, Glasgow, G1 1UG
- OS grid reference
- NS 593 651
- Coordinates
- 55.85868, -4.24932
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
57-59 Glassford Street in Glasgow is a seven-storey warehouse designed by Thomson, Sandilands and Macleod between 1934 and 1937. The building features red ashlar cladding over a reinforced A-framed construction. The ground level is finished with ashlar and polished granite facing Glassford Street, with a cill course that separates the ground and first floors. The facade has three bays on Glassford Street and five bays on Wilson Street. Giant Ionic pilasters divide the bays between the first and fifth floors, supporting a frieze and cornice, while the sixth floor is a plain flat-roofed attic. Painted metal bands highlight the floor levels between the cills and lintels, adorned with Red Indian-like decoration, fluted necks to the columns, and bands between the sixth-floor windows. The windows are metal framed and casement style.
Local climate
57-59 Glassford 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.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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
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