145 St Vincent Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 March 1977. Office block. 5 related planning applications.
145 St Vincent Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- lesser-oriel-thyme
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1977
- Type
- Office block
- Address
- 145 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, G2 5NU
- OS grid reference
- NS 586 654
- Coordinates
- 55.86161, -4.25969
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
145 St Vincent Street in Glasgow is a modern classical office block designed by Frank Burnet and Boston, built between 1931 and 1932. The building has seven storeys and a basement, featuring a layout of five by six bays, arranged as 1-3-1 on St Vincent Street and 1-4-1 on Wellington Street. It has a steel frame faced with red sandstone.
At the ground and first floors, there is a giant order of stylised Greek Doric columns and antae set on a continuous granite podium, which has fluted panels between the floors. The entrance on the east bay at St Vincent Street is framed with an architrave and features an oakleaf surround and keyblock, with a sculpted coat of arms above it. A bold cornice runs over the first floor.
The upper floors have windows that are divided by giant pilaster strips, with narrow outer bays that include window aprons at clasping angles. The main cornice is adorned with a dentil band and coupled flat consoles at the angles. The die walls facing St Vincent Street are ornamented, and there are wrought-iron balusters and lamp standards featuring carved griffins on plinths.
Local climate
145 St Vincent Street, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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