Former Possil School Gymnasium, 426 Balmore Road, Glasgow is a Grade C listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 April 1992. Gymnasium.
Former Possil School Gymnasium, 426 Balmore Road, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- twisted-lintel-lark
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 April 1992
- Type
- Gymnasium
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
James Taylor Thomson, 1930-34. Single storey and basement 10-bay T-plan former gymnasium block for Possil School, school now demolished. Red brick with contrasting slightly advanced ashlar end bays, base course, cill course, top and bottom of parapet. Recessed openings. Flat roof.
W (STREET) ELEVATION: symmetrical, 10-bay. Central canted projecting flagpole holder at parapet.
E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 9-bay, with central 3-bay projecting flat-roofed section with central entrance with slightly advanced doorpiece breaking parapet.
Predominantly 6-pane timber windows with upper section inward opening, some now boarded up.
INTERIOR: entrance hallway leads to 2 large gymnasiums with timber floors.
GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: stepped brick boundary wall with gabled ashlar coping to N, S, W and E, but most complete to W and S. Some sections with railings. To W, pair of brick slender square gatepiers with flat ashlar caps. To S, 2 pairs of brick gatepiers, those to left tall, square with flat ashlar caps, those to right shorter version with entrance now infilled with brick.
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