71, 73, 75, 77, 79 Buchanan Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 July 1988. Commercial office. 6 related planning applications.
71, 73, 75, 77, 79 Buchanan Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- haunted-chamber-heron
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1988
- Type
- Commercial office
- Address
- 71, 73, 75, 77, 79 Buchanan Street, Glasgow, G1 3HL
- OS grid reference
- NS 589 652
- Coordinates
- 55.85966, -4.25484
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
71, 73, 75, 77, and 79 Buchanan Street in Glasgow is a commercial office building designed by James Thomson in 1880, with an attic added by Baird and Thomson in 1887. This four-storey building features an attic and modern shops at the ground floor. It showcases a free classical style with Greek detailing and is composed of seven bays arranged in a 2-3-2 pattern. The exterior is finished in polished ashlar, and the windows are sash and case, set within architraves.
The first floor has shaped windows in lugged architraves, linked by a Greek-key frieze and topped with an anthemion. Above this is a dentil band and cornice. The second floor features a stylised anta pilastrade, while the third floor is adorned with arched windows that have an egg and dart archivolt, keyblocked in the central three bays. These are framed by Corinthian anta pilasters, with clasping in the outer bays of the central section, and a plain entablature with a dentil band and coupled modillion cornice.
The outer bays of the building have shaped, keyblocked dormers, while the central bays feature a tall tripartite dormer topped with an open pediment and the main cornice. The detailing of the main elevation continues into the first two bays of the north return to Mitchell Lane, which breaks forward and includes a dormer.
Local climate
71, 73, 75, 77, 79 Buchanan 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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- Related listed building consents — 6 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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