Thomas Fortune Work Centre, 50 Garscadden Road, Glasgow is a Grade C listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 May 1996. School.
Thomas Fortune Work Centre, 50 Garscadden Road, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- rooted-ember-fog
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow West MP: Patricia Ferguson (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 May 1996
- Type
- School
- OS grid reference
- NS 522 701
- Coordinates
- 55.90205, -4.36554
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Thomas Fortune Work Centre, located at 50 Garscadden Road in Glasgow, is a single-storey primary school built between 1904 and 1905 in the Glasgow Style. It was converted into residential accommodation in 2005 and 2006. The building is constructed from cream sandstone sourced from Auchinlea Quarry, featuring squared and snecked stonework with ashlar dressings.
The entrance elevation is nearly symmetrical, with advanced lower bays at the center. This area includes two single windows flanked by tripartite windows, and taller stone porches for girls and boys at the re-entrant angles. Each porch has a carved panel above a segmental lintel that supports a broad door with a chamfered reveal, leading to two-leaf panelled doors topped with lead domes. Behind the porches are ashlar stacks, one of which is truncated. The outer bays are recessed and gabled, with three windows on the left and a door with a window on the right.
On the side elevation, there is a broad gabled bay to the left that is slightly advanced and features a single window. The center has a bipartite window with a depressed arch dormer head, while two widely spaced windows are located to the right.
The rear elevation showcases eleven tall timber sash and case windows with plate glass and stylized glazing patterns. The roof is covered with West Highland grey slates and includes generous original rooflights in the entrance pitch, along with coped stacks.
Inside, the front range features a fine open timber roof inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, likely designed by Alan George McNaughtan. This roof includes generous rooflights and corbelled brackets, with dadoed walls throughout.
The gateway consists of square ashlar gatepiers that support two-leaf wrought-iron gates.
Local climate
Thomas Fortune Work Centre, 50 Garscadden Road, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% 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 0.3°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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