Gymnasium, Hutchesons' Grammar School, 44 Kingarth Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 March 1992. 4 related planning applications.
Gymnasium, Hutchesons' Grammar School, 44 Kingarth Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-gravel-burdock
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow South MP: Gordon McKee (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1992
- Address
- Gymnasium, Hutchesons' Grammar School, 44 Kingarth Street, Glasgow, G42 7RN
- OS grid reference
- NS 581 629
- Coordinates
- 55.83844, -4.26701
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Janitor's House at Hutchesons' Grammar School, located at 44 Kingarth Street in Glasgow, was designed by Thomson and Sandilands between 1910 and 1912 as part of a girls' school. It is a large, three-storey building with a palace-fronted design featuring Renaissance ornamentation, constructed from red ashlar stone. The main facade faces Kingarth Street and includes a pair of tall square baroque pavilions that contain entrances and belfries. These pavilions are connected by a central low projection at the ground level, which also has an entrance. The first floor features tall round-arched hall windows flanked by paired Ionic columns and a balustrade, with a nearly fully-glazed storey above that houses art rooms. The remaining windows are single and key-blocked at the first floor.
The south elevation facing Calder Street mirrors the details of the front but is simplified, featuring a pedimented centerpiece and shallow flanking pavilions raised above the wall-head. Most of the glazing is original, and the building is topped with a mutule cornice and a slate roof. The janitor's lodge is a two-storey L-plan structure with a shallow-domed turret, likely part of the original design. Additionally, there is a gymnasium block on Calder Street, characterized by ashlar piers and low walls with iron railings.
Local climate
Gymnasium, Hutchesons' Grammar School, 44 Kingarth Street, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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