Day Centre (Jewish Blind Society), 16 Newark Drive, Pollokshields, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 February 1990. Villa. 1 related planning application.

Day Centre (Jewish Blind Society), 16 Newark Drive, Pollokshields, Glasgow

WRENN ID
last-chamber-wax
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow South West MP: Dr Zubir Ahmed (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 February 1990
Type
Villa
Address
Day Centre (Jewish Blind Society), 16 Newark Drive, Pollokshields, Glasgow, G41 4QE
OS grid reference
NS 573 631
Coordinates
55.84, -4.27932
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Day Centre, formerly the Jewish Blind Society, is an Italianate villa built around 1880. This two-storey, three-bay structure features broad eaves and round-arched windows with sculptured details in the spandrels on the first floor. On the left side, there is a deep curved full-height window bay topped with a shallow curved roof. The inner bay includes a painted balustraded Corinthian porch. The building is constructed of stone-cleaned ashlar and has modern glazing, with end stacks and a piended slate roof. The boundary wall along the street is also stone-cleaned and includes panelled gatepiers made of painted ashlar.

Local climate

Day Centre (Jewish Blind Society), 16 Newark Drive, Pollokshields, 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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