Tollcross Children’s Farm and Courtyard, 254B Wellshot Road, Glasgow is a Grade C listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 March 1992. Stables.

Tollcross Children’s Farm and Courtyard, 254B Wellshot Road, Glasgow

WRENN ID
sheer-spindle-elder
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 March 1992
Type
Stables
OS grid reference
NS 638 636
Coordinates
55.84667, -4.17586
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Tollcross Children’s Farm and Courtyard, located at 254B Wellshot Road in Glasgow, was likely designed by David Bryce around 1858. The building features crow-stepped stables arranged in a courtyard layout, with a symmetrical rock-faced south front that has recessed ends. A pend is situated in the center gable, and loft-attic windows in the flanking bays extend through the eaves. The windows are small-paned sashes, and the building has a modern tiled roof with coped stacks. Additionally, there are lower wings that extend to the north.

Local climate

Tollcross Children’s Farm and Courtyard, 254B Wellshot Road, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% 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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