Iqra Academy, 423 Paisley Road West, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 February 1992. School. 3 related planning applications.

Iqra Academy, 423 Paisley Road West, Glasgow

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow South West MP: Dr Zubir Ahmed (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 February 1992
Type
School
Address
Iqra Academy, 423 Paisley Road West, Glasgow, G51 1PZ
OS grid reference
NS 562 643
Coordinates
55.85083, -4.29849
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Iqra Academy, located at 423 Paisley Road West in Glasgow, is a school building designed by Robert Baldie in 1875. It features a long, symmetrical front that is two stories high and has crow-stepped gables. The central entrance tower is adorned with conical-roofed bartisans and an iron-crested French roof. The entrance includes a moulded, arched doorway, while the first floor showcases oriel windows in advanced gables, with intermediate bays that contain transoms and single or paired lights featuring small vertical panes. The building is constructed of ashlar and has slate roofs.

In front of the school, there is a low playground wall with iron railings along the street.

Inside, the layout consists of a central hall with classrooms arranged around a light well, and there are stairs at each end of the hall.

Local climate

Iqra Academy, 423 Paisley Road West, 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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