Willowbank Primary School, Willowbank Street is a Grade C listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 May 2002. School. 2 related planning applications.
Willowbank Primary School, Willowbank Street
- WRENN ID
- upper-vault-dale
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 May 2002
- Type
- School
- Address
- Willowbank Primary School, Willowbank Street, G3 6NB
- OS grid reference
- NS 577 665
- Coordinates
- 55.87132, -4.27508
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Willowbank Primary School, built in 1900 by Alexander Petrie, is a three-storey, seven-bay, T-plan, symmetrical classical school building. The front elevations are made of red ashlar sandstone, which is channelled on the first storey, while the sides and rear are constructed from squared and snecked rubble. It features a bull-faced base course, a string course between the first and second storeys, an eaves course, a projecting cornice, and a blocked parapet. The building has tall rectangular windows.
The principal elevation includes a single-storey entrance porch with a flat roof that is advanced and has a parapet at the centre. The entrance features timber-panelled doors on the sides, flanked by paired windows. Above the entrance is a plain frieze with blind oculi and the inscription "WILLOW BANK PUBLIC SCHOOL." The second and third storeys have regular fenestration, with a blank central bay that has a shield inscribed with "ERECTED IN THE YEAR 1900." Blind oculi are located between the storeys, and the elevation is articulated with giant order pilasters. An attic frieze is inscribed with "SCHOOL BOARD OF GLASGOW."
The rear elevation has not been seen since 2002. The east side elevation has six bays, with a four-bay advanced block to the left. The two bays on the right are similar to the principal elevation and feature stone mullioned bipartite windows on the left. The left return continues with steps leading to a square-headed entrance within an inscribed semicircular arch, above which is a panel inscribed "GIRLS." There is a pilastered window on the second storey, with brackets supporting a semicircular-arched pediment. The advanced bays to the left have irregular fenestration, and there is an engaged stack breaking the eaves on the centre right.
The west side elevation mirrors the east side, except the side door is inscribed "BOYS." The building has 10-pane timber frame sash and case windows, grey slate roofing with lead flashing, and cast-iron rainwater goods.
The interior has not been seen since 2001. The boundary wall features low bull-faced courses and ornate cast-iron railings fixed to saddle-back coping. There are blocked square-plan gatepiers with a fluted frieze and pediments that terminate in shallow-domed drum caps, along with two-leaf ornate cast-iron gates.
Local climate
Willowbank Primary School, Willowbank Street 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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