Leisure Centre, 10 Braid Square, Glasgow is a Grade C listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 April 1992. Public baths and washhouse.
Leisure Centre, 10 Braid Square, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- guardian-solder-harvest
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 April 1992
- Type
- Public baths and washhouse
- OS grid reference
- NS 584 666
- Coordinates
- 55.87175, -4.2636
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Leisure Centre at 10 Braid Square in Glasgow was designed by John Carrick and built between 1880 and 1882. This two-storey, 13-bay building features a rectangular plan and showcases Italian Renaissance architecture. It is located on a prominent corner site and was originally used as baths and a public washhouse. The exterior is made of cream-colored sandstone ashlar and includes channeled rusticated arcaded bays leading to a break-fronted entrance with a pediment. The building has a deep base course, a corniced cill course, and corniced eaves with a blocking course. The openings are moulded and architraved, with widely spaced bays in the flanking wings—three bays on the left and seven on the right—along with large oculi positioned above the ground floor windows. The four-bay returns display a similar pattern of fenestration. There are modern extensions at the rear of the building.
The windows are predominantly non-traditional replacements, and the roof is pitched with slate, featuring glazed rooflights over the original pool area to the south.
Inside, much of the interior was reconstructed between 1989 and 1991, but the timber roof and columned gallery have been retained.
Local climate
Leisure Centre, 10 Braid Square, 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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