4, 6, 8 John Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 September 1989. Office. 7 related planning applications.

4, 6, 8 John Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 September 1989
Type
Office
Address
4, 6, 8 John Street, Glasgow, G1 1JQ
OS grid reference
NS 594 652
Coordinates
55.86002, -4.24753
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

4, 6, 8 John Street in Glasgow is a mid-19th century building featuring three stories and an attic, designed as offices with shops on the ground floor. The ground floor has a modern shopfront, while the upper floors are rendered. The building has five bays with single light windows, all adorned with lugged architraves and cornices on the first floor. All windows are sash and case style with four-pane glazing.

Additional architectural details include a moulded cornice above the ground floor, a string course at the window cills, an eaves band, and a deep plain parapet. The roof features two bipartite dormers, corniced end stacks, and is covered with slate.

Local climate

4, 6, 8 John 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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