8 Bruce Road, Pollokshields, Glasgow is a Grade C listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 February 1990. Villa.

8 Bruce Road, Pollokshields, Glasgow

WRENN ID
seventh-porch-barley
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow South West MP: Dr Zubir Ahmed (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 February 1990
Type
Villa
OS grid reference
NS 574 635
Coordinates
55.84428, -4.2778
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a later 19th century two-storey and attic three-bay villa located at 8 Bruce Road in Pollokshields, Glasgow. The building features stone-cleaned ashlar and plate glass sashes. It has prominent brackets at the eaves and a slate roof. The central door is set within a round-arched doorcase that includes engaged columns topped with foliated capitals. To the left, there is a full-height canted window, while to the right, there are bipartite windows. The ground floor window projects slightly, with its mullion designed as a colonnette featuring a foliated capital and a bracketed cornice. The villa also has a shallow centre dormer and end stacks. In front of the property, there is a low boundary wall along the street, complemented by banded gatepiers with scroll-shaped coping.

Local climate

8 Bruce Road, Pollokshields, 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 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% 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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