Askit Laboratory, 93 Saracen Street, Glsgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 2004. Laboratory, manufactory.

Askit Laboratory, 93 Saracen Street, Glsgow

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 August 2004
Type
Laboratory, manufactory
OS grid reference
NS 590 675
Coordinates
55.88046, -4.25474
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Askit Laboratory, located at 93 Saracen Street in Glasgow, was designed by William B Whitie and built between 1932 and 1933. This building is a single-storey and two-storey structure with six bays, originally serving as a laboratory and manufactory, and is now used by a printing company. The exterior is primarily made of coursed red sandstone ashlar, featuring an advanced doorcase and end bays on the original building, along with an eaves course and a piended roof.

On the principal elevation, there is a central advanced tall doorcase with a fanlight, flanked by single bays that contain narrow tripartite windows. The outer bays have advanced piended gables with tripartite windows that include stone mullions. To the right, there is a slightly recessed later flat-roofed section with a tripartite window.

The northeast elevation features a later two-storey flat-roofed section with five bays on the right. On the left, there is a return bay of a single-storey flat-roofed addition to the east elevation, which has a door at ground level.

The southeast elevation consists of four bays, which are harled and painted white, with a door located at the second bay. The windows are predominantly metal-framed, with either eight or twelve panes, and the roof is covered with grey slates.

The interior of the building has been substantially altered. Additionally, there is a low red sandstone boundary wall to the east, topped with flat coping and plain railings, featuring a central gate.

Local climate

Askit Laboratory, 93 Saracen Street, Glsgow 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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