Pollokshields Burgh Hall, 72 Glencairn Drive, Glasgow is a Grade A listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. 5 related planning applications.

Pollokshields Burgh Hall, 72 Glencairn Drive, Glasgow

WRENN ID
sombre-pillar-khaki
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow South West MP: Dr Zubir Ahmed (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 December 1970
Address
Pollokshields Burgh Hall, 72 Glencairn Drive, Glasgow, G41 4LL
OS grid reference
NS 568 629
Coordinates
55.83889, -4.28704
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

72 Glencairn Drive in Glasgow is an impressive building designed by H E Clifford between 1888 and 1890, with later additions and alterations by Thomas Somers in 1935. This elaborate Scots Renaissance structure includes a burgh hall, park gate, and lodge, all constructed from rock-faced red ashlar and featuring intricate sculptural details. The roofs are a mix of slate and red tiles.

The hall is set within a wooded garden and is open to the road. It features a dummy tower house on the right (north) and a low projecting range at the front, which has an entrance on the right within a gabled open porch that includes a sculptured tympanum. To the left, there is an oriel window inspired by the Earl's Palace in Kirkwall, and a gabled section of the hall is located at the extreme left, with a long side facing the driveway. The windows have blocked arches, and there is an axial ventilator, with some leaded glass present.

Opposite the park driveway is the lodge, which is L-shaped and two stories tall, featuring shallow gables and roll-moulding. It has a curved roof over a low projection facing the park. The square gatepiers are adorned with pulvinated bands and topped with pyramidal finials, accompanied by screen walls.

Local climate

Pollokshields Burgh Hall, 72 Glencairn Drive, 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 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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