Langside Public Library, 2 Sinclair Drive, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 December 1989. Library. 1 related planning application.

Langside Public Library, 2 Sinclair Drive, Glasgow

WRENN ID
winding-flagstone-pine
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow South MP: Gordon McKee (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 December 1989
Type
Library
Address
Langside Public Library, 2 Sinclair Drive, Glasgow, G42 9QE
OS grid reference
NS 580 616
Coordinates
55.82698, -4.26764
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Langside Public Library, located at 2 Sinclair Drive in Glasgow, was designed by George Simpson and completed in 1913. This single-storey public library is built from red ashlar and is situated on a corner site, featuring symmetrical street elevations in the Edwardian baroque style. The entrance elevation on Sinclair Drive showcases three-bay advanced ends, a pilastered centre, and a pedimented doorway. The Battlefield Road side has five regular bays, a continuous entablature, and a deep parapet that encloses piended slate roofs, topped with a decorative axial ventilator.

Internally, modern alterations have created an open-plan layout, and the rear wing has also been updated. The library is enclosed by a low wall with intermittent piers, and there is a panel set at the angled street corner.

Local climate

Langside Public Library, 2 Sinclair Drive, 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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