Scotland Street School, 225 Scotland Street, Glasgow is a Grade A listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 July 1966. School. 6 related planning applications.
Scotland Street School, 225 Scotland Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- strange-arch-swift
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow South West MP: Dr Zubir Ahmed (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1966
- Type
- School
- Address
- Scotland Street School, 225 Scotland Street, Glasgow, G5 8QB
- OS grid reference
- NS 577 641
- Coordinates
- 55.84943, -4.27368
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Scotland Street Public School, located at 225 Scotland Street in Glasgow, was designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and built between 1903 and 1907.
The building is constructed from red ashlar sandstone and features a three-storey, seven-bay principal (north) elevation with a small central entrance for infants. This entrance is flanked by two prominent glazed staircase towers, which serve the boys' and girls' entrances, and are adorned with mullioned windows containing small panes and topped with conical slate roofs. The cloakrooms on either side are set in receding stages and supported by buttresses. The end elevations are asymmetrical and feature tall chimneystacks, while there is an archway leading to the east boundary wall topped with a bell cupola.
The rear (south) elevation is three-storey and consists of 18 bays with a more austere design, featuring stylised architrave and swag decorations on the end and central bays, along with metal framed windows and a slate roof. The interior includes a simply tiled corridor layout.
At the northwest corner of the site, there is a two-storey janitor's house with an oriel window, swept roofs, and chimney stacks. The original scheme also included a boundary wall with gates and railings, featuring a shallow arched ashlar entrance and an outside toilet block. The school was closed due to the demolition of the surrounding housing but reopened as a museum of education in November 1990.
Local climate
Scotland Street School, 225 Scotland Street, 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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