Mosesfield House, Belmont Road, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 October 1970. Country house. 1 related planning application.
Mosesfield House, Belmont Road, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- endless-rood-solstice
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North East MP: Maureen Burke (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1970
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Mosesfield House, Belmont Road, Glasgow, G21 3AY
- OS grid reference
- NS 607 687
- Coordinates
- 55.8917, -4.22779
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Mosesfield House, designed by architect David Hamilton in 1838, is a modest two-storey country house that has been integrated into the city of Glasgow. The building is currently divided into a club on the ground floor and a domestic flat above. It showcases the individual castellated gothic style developed by Hamilton, featuring sash windows with horizontal glazing and pointed windows that include simple tracery. The prominent cornice moulding runs along the skews and steps over the gables, with kneelers and dormer heads, and apex finials. The house has prominent stacks with grouped square flues.
To the east, there is a low courtyard block primarily constructed of ashlar, with lesser elevations made of coursed rubble and slate roofs. The south elevation, which serves as the entrance, has an advanced gable on the right side with a painted hood-moulded entrance leading to a groin-vaulted recessed open porch. The entrance door is located within this porch, and above it is a stone-balconied and hood-moulded window. To the left, there is a crenellated canted ground floor window and two first-floor windows. The west elevation mirrors this detailing, but the advanced gable on the right is castellated, featuring octagonal angle shafts that are carried upwards and corbelled out as thin, residual bartizans. A modern lavatory outshot is present on the north wall.
The courtyard block, which now serves as a Parks Department store as of 1988, consists of two single-storey ranges arranged in an L-plan. The north range is linked to the house, while the east range contains a loft situated below the eaves and includes a coach-house. The courtyard is enclosed to the south by a high screen wall with blind tall loops flanking a moulded large carriage arch that has cornice moulding stepped over it, with the gable of the east range set forward on the right.
Inside the house, much of the original ornamentation remains, including decorative cornice plasterwork and marble chimney pieces. The vestibule walls feature two inset painted scenes and two classically-robed busts.
Local climate
Mosesfield House, Belmont Road, 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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