Former Hill's Trust School, 121 Golspie Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. School, janitor's house. 2 related planning applications.

Former Hill's Trust School, 121 Golspie Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
western-footing-kestrel
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow South West MP: Dr Zubir Ahmed (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 December 1970
Type
School, janitor's house
OS grid reference
NS 550 656
Coordinates
55.86196, -4.31686
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The former Hill's Trust School, located at 121 Golspie Street in Glasgow, was designed by James Thomson of Baird and Thomson in 1874. This building is a two-storey, L-plan school in a severe Italianate style, featuring a three-storey bell tower and a janitor's house. The exterior is constructed of ashlar stone with a rubble rear.

The elevation facing Golspie Street is two storeys high and has nine bays. It features a central arched entrance flanked by Doric columns, with an entablature above. There is a corbelled, balustraded balcony in front of a tripartite window on the first floor. Above this, the square tower has a blank rubble panel, which may have once displayed an inscription, and a belfry with louvres that are now blocked. The building has wooden eaves, a slate roof, and a weather vane. On either side of the entrance, there are four bays with eight-pane sash and case windows.

The north wing is two storeys tall and consists of six bays. The third bay on the ground floor features a tripartite pilastered door with a dentil cornice above it.

The janitor's house is a two-storey structure with a one-by-three bay layout. It has a central pedimented door, bipartite windows, and bipartite dormers with skewputts, all topped with a slate roof.

Local climate

Former Hill's Trust School, 121 Golspie 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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