Kinfauns Centre, 436 Kinfauns Drive, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 April 1996. Church, community centre. 1 related planning application.

Kinfauns Centre, 436 Kinfauns Drive, Glasgow

WRENN ID
weathered-alcove-wren
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow West MP: Patricia Ferguson (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
2 April 1996
Type
Church, community centre
Address
Kinfauns Centre, 436 Kinfauns Drive, Glasgow, G15 7NE
OS grid reference
NS 528 714
Coordinates
55.91346, -4.35622
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Kinfauns Centre, located at 436 Kinfauns Drive in Glasgow, is a community centre that was originally designed as a church by John Easton between 1961 and 1964. The building features a shallow-pitched roof and consists of two interlocked blocks with characteristics of the Modern Movement. The exterior is rendered and painted, with contrasting painted brick fins that centre the bays. The eaves are designed to sweep up, creating a canopy effect.

On the north elevation, there is a lower section that is approximately 13 bays wide, with fins attached to the mullions of bipartite windows in each bay. This section flanks an off-centre entrance, which is accompanied by a single window on the outer left. The broad entrance bay features doorways that are flanked by an Art Deco fin, reminiscent of the Empire Exhibition style, with a horizontal flange ornament at mid-height emerging from a rendered pier. Behind this is a taller 10-bay block that includes clerestorey windows, mostly bipartite with dividing piers made from the same material as the fins.

The east and west elevations present shallow gable ends of the lower, longer block facing Kinfauns Drive. Each gable has a centrally located door beneath a canopied porch that reflects the roof form, flanked by narrow windows. The west gable also includes a door and windows on the return to the south. The taller west gable features a central stack that breaks the apex, topped with a painted chimneyhead.

The south elevation showcases the taller 10-bay block, with tall window panels in each bay (mostly bipartite with full-height dividing fins), all topped with clerestorey windows. Doors are evenly distributed across three bays, and each outer bay has a tier of three square windows.

The building is topped with sheet metal roofing and features fixed and pivot metal windows. The interior serves as a community centre, although it was not seen during a visit in 1995.

Local climate

Kinfauns Centre, 436 Kinfauns Drive, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% 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 0.3°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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