Main Steps, former Ruchill Hospital, 520 Bilsland Drive, Glasgow is a Grade C listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 April 1992. Staircase. 2 related planning applications.
Main Steps, former Ruchill Hospital, 520 Bilsland Drive, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- seventh-gutter-thrush
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 April 1992
- Type
- Staircase
- Address
- Main Steps, former Ruchill Hospital, 520 Bilsland Drive, Glasgow, G20 9JL
- OS grid reference
- NS 583 684
- Coordinates
- 55.88818, -4.26606
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The main steps of the former Ruchill Hospital, located at 520 Bilsland Drive in Glasgow, were constructed as part of the hospital complex designed by Alexander Beith McDonald around 1892 and completed in 1900.
This broad, straight stone staircase ascends a steep slope and consists of two flights separated by landings, with each flight further divided by smaller landings. It provides an axial approach to the water tower. The staircase features a pierced balustrade with geometric stylised oval balusters that are decorated with a circular design, topped with plain coping stones that form a handrail.
The first pair of flights includes 27 steps (counting the landing), while the second pair has 28 steps (including the landing). At the base of the staircase, there are octagonal newel posts with later domed octagonal caps. Each landing is flanked by four corniced square piers. Some sections of the balustrade, coping, and newel posts have been restored using the original stonework.
Local climate
Main Steps, former Ruchill Hospital, 520 Bilsland Drive, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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