85 West George Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 March 1977. Commercial building. 6 related planning applications.

85 West George Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
tenth-hall-ridge
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 March 1977
Type
Commercial building
Address
85 West George Street, Glasgow, G2 1QG
OS grid reference
NS 589 654
Coordinates
55.86198, -4.25469
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

85 West George Street in Glasgow is a four-storey commercial building designed by Peddie and Kinnear in 1872, showcasing an early Renaissance style. It occupies a double corner site with nine bays and three return bays facing West Nile Street and Nelson Mandela Place. The building is constructed of painted ashlar. The ground floor features shouldered lintels, while the first floor has stilted segmental arches, the second floor showcases round arches, and the third floor is designed with square heads. The building is topped with deep bracketed eaves and a piended slate roof.

Local climate

85 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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