133, 135, 137 West George Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 July 1988. Office building. 11 related planning applications.
133, 135, 137 West George Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- old-cellar-rook
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1988
- Type
- Office building
- Address
- 133, 135, 137 West George Street, Glasgow, G2 2JJ
- OS grid reference
- NS 588 655
- Coordinates
- 55.86209, -4.25676
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
133, 135, and 137 West George Street in Glasgow is a six-storey office building designed by James Thomson between 1896 and 1897, showcasing a Free Classical style. The ground floor was altered by Thomas Tait in 1933. The building features three groups of seven unequal bays and is constructed from polished red ashlar. It has sash and case windows set within architraves.
The original entrance at No 137 West George Street includes an arched, pilastered doorpiece with a mask keyblock, situated at the top of steps flanked by polished granite die walls. The ground floor is made of sandstone, with fluted pilasters that divide the bays, bronze dressings, and a granite plinth.
On the elevation facing West George Street, the windows are arranged in a 2-3-2 pattern, with the central bay advanced. The ground floor features a mutule cornice. A richly sculpted, bracketed cornice on the first floor supports a solid balcony on the second floor, which has pilastered, arched windows with panelled spandrels and keyblocked cornices. The central window is aedicled with granite-shafted columns. The third-floor windows have lugged architraves, while the fourth floor showcases Corinthian columns at the arcaded windows, a sculpted frieze, and a bracketed cornice. The building is topped with a balustraded die parapet, which is pierced over the central bay and flanked by finials.
The elevation facing Renfield Street repeats the detailing found on the West George Street side. The windows here are arranged in a 3-2-1-1-3-2 pattern. At the first floor, granite columns support a tripartite arched aedicule window with flanking columns above. There is an arched columned window in the second floor's fourth bay from the north, a flat-headed columned window in the sixth bay at the third floor, and a broken segmental pediment with a sculpted tympanum above it.
Local climate
133, 135, 137 West George 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 — 11 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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