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
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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