Gates At Queen Margaret Drive, Botanic Gardens, 703 Great Western Road, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 July 1987. Gates. 1 related planning application.

Gates At Queen Margaret Drive, Botanic Gardens, 703 Great Western Road, Glasgow

WRENN ID
crooked-vault-nettle
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 July 1987
Type
Gates
Address
Gates At Queen Margaret Drive, Botanic Gardens, 703 Great Western Road, Glasgow, G12 0UE
OS grid reference
NS 568 673
Coordinates
55.87806, -4.28968
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The gates at Queen Margaret Drive, located at 703 Great Western Road in Glasgow, were designed by city architect A B McDonald around 1894. They consist of two pairs of gates arranged with a wide central carriageway flanked by narrow pedestrian gateways. The structure features four tall square gatepiers made of banded ashlar and brick, which rise to octagonal domed ashlar caps topped with ball finials on the outer pair. The inner pair of gatepiers support wrought-iron lamp brackets. The elaborate wrought-iron gates display the city arms.

At Kirklee Quadrant, there are two pairs of cast-iron gates accompanied by cast-iron gatepiers. Surrounding the gardens, a low coped ashlar wall supports cast-iron railings. The gates are situated opposite Kibble Palace and Kirklee Gardens, where a tall coped coursed ashlar wall can be found.

Local climate

Gates At Queen Margaret Drive, Botanic Gardens, 703 Great Western 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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