Lodges, 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. Lodge.
Lodges, Botanic Gardens, 703 Great Western Road, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- drifting-nave-ochre
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1987
- Type
- Lodge
- OS grid reference
- NS 568 673
- Coordinates
- 55.87814, -4.28986
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The lodges at the Botanic Gardens on Great Western Road in Glasgow were designed by city architect A B M McDonald in 1894. This pair of similar lodges is built in a mock Tudor style and flanks the entrance to the gardens. They are single-storey structures with symmetrical inward-facing elevations as well as elevations facing Great Western Road. The lodges are constructed from brick, featuring sandstone bands, margins, and long and short work quoins.
Each lodge has steps leading to the door, with an ashlar parapet that supports a gabled porch held up by Roman Doric columns. The porches are flanked by mullioned and transomed three-light windows, with roll-moulded panels that display the Glasgow City crest on the south lodge and the date 1894 on the north lodge.
The elevation facing Great Western Road includes a five-light transomed and mullioned canted window. Timber brackets support the jettied gable, and there is a dentil cornice at the eaves. All gables are half-timbered, with slate roofs and red tile cresting. The north elevations feature brick stacks that rise from the ground.
Local climate
Lodges, 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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