Overnewton School, 52 Lumsden Street And Overnewton Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 July 1988. School. 4 related planning applications.
Overnewton School, 52 Lumsden Street And Overnewton Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- waning-chancel-raven
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1988
- Type
- School
- Address
- Overnewton School, 52 Lumsden Street And Overnewton Street, Glasgow, G3 8RH
- OS grid reference
- NS 566 660
- Coordinates
- 55.86602, -4.29287
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Overnewton School, designed by John Burnet and dated 1876, is a Netherlandish Gothic style building located at 52 Lumsden Street and Overnewton Street in Glasgow. The school is two storeys high and features nine unequal bays. It has a double pile layout with a recessed south gable and an attached tower at the eastern end of the north gable. The exterior is constructed of snecked rubble and primarily consists of casement windows with multi-pane glazing, set upon a battered plinth.
The southeast entrance, located at the base of the stair tower, is hoodmoulded and has lettering above that reads "GIRLS". To the east, there are three round-arched windows. The ground floor has a raked string course that steps up over a north-facing bipartite stone-transomed window, with two similar windows above on the southeast and east faces of the tower. The building is topped with an embattled parapet and a steeply-hipped, two-stage pyramidal slate roof featuring a finial and an attached stack.
On the north section, there is a two by eight-bay pile with plain ground floor windows and a raked string course above. The raised lettering "OVERNEWTON PUBLIC SCHOOL" is prominently displayed. There are six central coped full dormers with acroteria, flanked by small single-light windows. The eastern return mirrors the main elevation, featuring a hoodmould round-arched window in the center that frames a sculpted Glasgow coat of arms. The gable is roll-moulded and coped, with a stack and lettering that reads "SCHOOL BOARD OF GLASGOW". The slate roof continues over this section.
The south section replicates the north section's design. The west return has a double gable similar to the main elevation, with a single bay linking section that includes an arched entrance marked "BOYS". In the playground, there are glazed tiled, cast-iron columned, single-storey shelters. Additionally, there is a three by one-bay caretaker's house to the south with half-dormers. A stepped boundary wall to the east is attached to the north section and features an arched entrance marked "GIRLS AND INFANTS".
Local climate
Overnewton School, 52 Lumsden Street And Overnewton Street, 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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