Holyrood Secondary Rc School, 70 Dixon Road, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 December 1989. School.
Holyrood Secondary Rc School, 70 Dixon Road, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- fossil-rood-reed
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 December 1989
- Type
- School
- OS grid reference
- NS 590 622
- Coordinates
- 55.83268, -4.25247
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Holyrood Secondary Roman Catholic School, located at 70 Dixon Road in Glasgow, was designed by John Burnet, Son and Dick and completed in 1936. The school features a symmetrical layout with a long front facing both Albert Road and Dixon Road, each side adorned with long, small-paned windows and a shallow advanced centerpiece that includes a doorway. The main building is primarily two storeys tall, rising to three storeys along Albert Road, except for the wings. It is constructed of red brick, enhanced by contrasting stone entablature and dressings. The stacks, centerpiece, angles, and piers of the playground walls exhibit channelled detailing, and the tiled roofs appear to be original.
Additionally, there is a detached two-storey janitor's lodge with a pyramidal roof located on Dixon Road. This lodge is similarly detailed to the main school building, although its windows are plate glass sashes.
Local climate
Holyrood Secondary Rc School, 70 Dixon Road, 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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