Woodside District Library, 343 St George's Road, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Library. 2 related planning applications.
Woodside District Library, 343 St George's Road, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- second-soffit-peregrine
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Library
- Address
- Woodside District Library, 343 St George's Road, Glasgow, G3 6JQ
- OS grid reference
- NS 582 666
- Coordinates
- 55.87219, -4.26733
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Woodside District Library, located at 343 St George's Road in Glasgow, was built between 1902 and 1905 by architect J R Rhind. This classical branch library is a single-storey structure featuring five central bays, with a prominent entrance bay at the south and a lower entrance at the north. The façade is made of ashlar stone.
The main entrance boasts an arched doorway beneath a full-height doorpiece supported by paired Ionic columns and a segmentally pedimented top. Above this entrance is a sculpture group depicting a woman reading to children.
Inside, the library hall features three arched windows that are flanked by Ionic columns, with paired outer columns rising from a cill course and supporting a balustraded entablature. Each flanking bay contains a corniced and architraved window with a decorative oculus above. The hall is crowned by a square domed cupola topped with a finial.
The secondary entrance is also architraved and has a decorative oculus above, supported by two putti. The interior includes a domed library hall with a coffered ceiling and four columned screens at either end.
Local climate
Woodside District Library, 343 St George's 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 EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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