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. 5 related planning applications.
Southern General Hospital, 1345 Govan Road, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- pitched-spandrel-plum
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow South West MP: Dr Zubir Ahmed (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1989
- Type
- Hospital
- OS grid reference
- NS 538 658
- Coordinates
- 55.86316, -4.3374
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Southern General Hospital, located at 1345 Govan Road in Glasgow, was designed by James Thomson and built between 1867 and 1872. This two-storey, 23-bay former poorhouse hospital block features a symmetrical design with iron-crested French-roofed pavilions and a small square tower above a shallow, advanced 7-bay centerpiece, which is now part of the Southern General Hospital established in 2012. The building is constructed from snecked, stugged, and squared ashlar with polished dressings. It has unmargined windows and horizontal bands between the floors, with small-paned sash windows. The centerpiece includes alternate ground floor windows that are bipartite, while the first floor features segmental-arched windows and round-headed lights in the pavilions. There is a central pilastered tripartite doorway, which is painted and now fitted with modern doors. The building has corniced stacks and slate roofs, including a finialed and leaded axial platform at the south end of the main roof. The rear elevation is similarly styled, with a large rear wing that also has iron-crested French roofs.
Local climate
Southern General Hospital, 1345 Govan Road, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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 EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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