Free College Mission, 329-345 North Woodside Road, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 May 1986. Mission hall. 2 related planning applications.
Free College Mission, 329-345 North Woodside Road, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- rooted-kitchen-pine
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1986
- Type
- Mission hall
- Address
- Free College Mission, 329-345 North Woodside Road, Glasgow, G20 6ND
- OS grid reference
- NS 577 670
- Coordinates
- 55.87545, -4.27593
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Free College Mission, located at 329-345 North Woodside Road in Glasgow, was built around 1879 as the Mission Hall of Free College Church. It served as the founding site of the Boys Brigade in 1883, which continued to meet there until December 1973. This three-storey building features stugged ashlar with polished ashlar margins and has been stone cleaned. The elevation facing North Woodside Road consists of six bays.
Notable architectural elements include a pointed arch portal with granite nook shafts and a shouldered doorpiece topped with a hoodmould. The ground floor has paired pointed arch windows, while the first floor features shouldered and mullioned windows. The second floor windows are set in individual gablets, paired, and have trefoil heads beneath pointed arch hoodmoulds. Additional details include string courses at the cills, a plain main cornice, skewputts, and slate roofs.
A plaque at ground floor level commemorates Sir W A Alexander, the founder of the Boys Brigade, and mentions a larger original memorial plaque from 1933, which has since been relocated to the Stevenson Memorial Church on Belmont Street.
Local climate
Free College Mission, 329-345 North Woodside Road, 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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