Administration Block, Southern General Hospital, 1345 Govan Road, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 October 1989. Hospital. 1 related planning application.
Administration Block, Southern General Hospital, 1345 Govan Road, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- last-moat-winter
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1989
- Type
- Hospital
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
James Thomson, 1867-72. Long, symmetrical, 35-bay, 3-storey, roughly T-plan, former poorhouse with distinctive French pavilion-roofed bays and central clock tower (now part of Southern General Hospital, 2012). Coursed, snecked and stugged sandstone with ashlar dressings. Band courses, cill course, dentilled cornice. Raised cills. Variety of later, 20th century, extensions and infill buildings.
PRINCIPAL ELEVATION TO E: central, well-advanced, single-storey parapetted entrance bay with Doric portico and canted 3-light windows to corners. Distinctive square-plan 6-stage central clock tower immediately to rear of elevation with louvred bipartite windows to 4th stage and curved gables above with clocks to all faces. Pyramidal-roofed top stage with iron pinnacle. Advanced pavilion bays regularly spaced to elevation, each with iron crested French roofs.
Predominantly plate-glass and 4-over 4-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slates, corniced stacks.
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