Bbc, 30 Queen Margaret Drive, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Villa. 8 related planning applications.
Bbc, 30 Queen Margaret Drive, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- still-glass-hawk
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Villa
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Southwest part by J T Rochead, 1869-71, Renaissance villa converted to educational use; additions by James Miller 1936 and later.
Northeast part John Keppie with Charles Rennie Mackintosh (John Honeyman and Keppie) 1895. Former medical building of Queen Margaret College, 1895.
Southwest Part: Two-storeys, three- by five-bays. Polished ashlar, rusticated angles and flanking entrance strips. Sash and case windows, four-pane glazing.
Entrance Front: central Doric portico with coupled columns, panelled frieze with triglyphs, mutule cornice, balustrade over. Ground floor windows in recesses, mask keyblocked, arched with moulded archivolts, panelled aprons. Ground floor dentil band, cornice. First floor windows, blind balconies, segmental, consoled shell-headed cornices, tripartite central window with scroll supporters. Deep bracketted modillion cornice with dentil band. Corniced parapet walls, balustrade to ground floor.
South Return: repeating detailing of main elevation with single-light windows at first floor. Extension to south return (1936), seven main bays with lower east bay; channelled ground floor, two first floor aediculed windows, consoled segmental pediments. Dentil band, cornice.
Interior: double-height coupled column Doric entrance hall with arcaded gallery. Elaborate plasterwork, top-lit with oculi, compartmented, corniced, barrel-vaulted ceiling.
Northeast Part: Two-storey, L-planned extension with facetted stair tower in re-entrant angle. Art Nouveau. Snecked rubble. Projecting entrance bay attached to tower. Sculpted panel over doorway with date. Stylised balustraded balcony over. Three simple, narrow single-light windows to right. Parapet, swept over entrance, eaves breaking through elliptically arched opening. Two sash and case windows with eight-pane glazing and keyblocked, shaped lintels to left. Tower with narrow stair lights. Open-arched belfry with impost band. Cornice. Bell-cast roof. Rubble and ashlar boundary wall. Cast iron railings and entrance gate to west, channelled, corniced piers with sculpted urns.
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