Springburn Nursery School, 48 Gourlay Street, Glasgow is a Grade C listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 February 1992. 1 related planning application.

Springburn Nursery School, 48 Gourlay Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
upper-paling-torch
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North East MP: Maureen Burke (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 February 1992
OS grid reference
NS 602 675
Coordinates
55.88077, -4.23563
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Janitor's Lodge at Springburn Nursery School, located at 48 Gourlay Street in Glasgow, is a surviving remnant of a former pair of school blocks designed by David Thomson between 1873 and 1875. The building features a long, two-storey front with outer gables and a large wing that is asymmetrically placed, linked to a near-centre gabled bay that may have originally included a belfry. The windows are mainly segmental-headed, either single or three-light, with some featuring hood-moulds and an original horizontal glazing pattern. The exterior is constructed of stugged ashlar with polished dressings, and all roofs are slated.

To the southeast, there is a single-storey Janitor's Lodge, which has a plain street elevation and is presumably also designed by Thomson. The block to the northwest, designed by Thomson and Menzies in 1894-1895, was demolished in 1991. Additionally, there are stone-built playground walls with raised coping at the gateways to Gourlay Street.

Local climate

Springburn Nursery School, 48 Gourlay Street, 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 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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