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Late 18th Century | Broomielaw harbour is an important trading point along the River Clyde and for the city, and is the only harbour. The city is developing around the merchant city areas to the east and north east of Broomielaw.

Early 19th Century – Rapid westward expansion of the city

Carrick Street, Brown Street and Crimea Street (formerly College Street) are laid as part of the expansion of the city westwards and the harbour in the early 19th century;

Mid 19th Century to mid- 20th Century – Major industrial expansion, rapid growth an densification

The land uses in the area reflect the growth in trading of goods and products and the increasing industrialisation of the area they include several foundries, corn and flour mills, railway goods sheds and warehousing, and new docks;
By the end of the 19th Century the industrial densification of the area, and within the linear street blocks north of Broomielaw Quay and south of Argyle Street, was peaking.

Built Heritage Assets

The Site does not contain any formally identified heritage assets, and is not located within, nor contain, any designated or non-designated heritage assets. The devastation that has occurred around the site and surrounding area as a result of clearance of industrial areas and the construction of commercial buildings as part of the IFSD and earlier the M8 Kingston Bridge is reflected in the very limited number of heritage assets surviving.
The Site is not within the Glasgow Central Conservation Area, it sits to the west and north of the western edge on Brown Street and where a finger of the designated areas stretches along the Broomielaw. This reflects the extent of the expansion of Broomielaw harbour up to the former boundary of the Royalty of Glasgow, there are very few historic buildings within this westernmost stretch of the conservation area, with the exception of some single large warehouse buildings on James Watt Street and extending back to Brown Street, and further to the east at the original Broomielaw Harbour, the Category A-listed Clydeport Navigation Trust building which has a distinctive domed tower with views west along the River Clyde. This part of the conservation area is identified as the Broomielaw, St Enoch and River Clyde Character Area in the Glasgow Central Conservation Area Appraisal.
The surviving heritage assets reflect the evolving character of the Site and its historic development pattern up to the late 20th Century.
The significance of the heritage assets may be affected indirectly by the redevelopment proposals through change to the character and appearance of part of their shared townscape setting and views.

The Site and Immediate Surroundings

The Site comprises circa 0.3ha of land bounded by Carrick Street to the west, Crimea Street to the north, the Clyde Street Mission building and Brown Street to the east, and a small surface car park to the south west corner (Figure 4.1).
Historically Carrick Street, was one of the north south connections from Argyle Street to Broomielaw connecting the important east-west routes of the city. The historic development pattern of these long linear blocks south of Argyle Street evolved differently to those of the regimented grid iron plan to the north, consequently the north south streets do not align with the north south streets of the grid iron plan and are often angled off Argyle Street, this effects the connectivity of this part of the city from the areas north and to the east.
This historic street pattern of long linear north-south connecting was truncated by the construction of Kentigern House. Many of the earlier buildings on the Site and its surroundings, from the thriving quayside industries of the 19th and early 20th Century have been cleared as part of successive regeneration programmes since the mid-20th Century. This has lead to a mix of open areas/gap sites typically in use as surface car parks, modern office developments including several headquarter buildings of varied style, scales and ages from the 1970s through to c2020 and a handful of surviving historic buildings from the industrial period at Broomielaw, predominantly warehouses.
The Site is located on the edge of an area that has been left largely without a clearly defined use or identity for several decades and a fragmentary and varied urban form, with disruption to the street pattern and a mix of building scales, forms and uses, generally separated by large areas of vacant land/open space. It is in an area that has the potential for transformation and urban renewal.