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
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 May 1996
Type
School
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

D McNaughtan, 1904/05. Single storey, Glasgow Style primary school. Converted to residential accommodation (2005/06). Cream sandstone (Auchinlea Quarry), squared and snecked with ashlar dressings.

ENTRANCE ELEVATION: near-symmetrical. Advanced lower bays at centre with 2 single windows flanked by tripartites; flanked in re-entrant angles by taller stone porches (Girls and Boys) each with carved panel over segmental lintel of broad door with chamfered reveal; 2-leaf panelled doors; lead(?) domes capping porches. Ashlar stacks behind (that to right truncated). Recessed gabled outer bays, to left with 3 windows, to right door and window.

SIDE ELEVATION: broad gabled bay to left, slightly advanced with single window. Bipartite window at centre with depressed arch dormerhead. 2 widely spaced windows to right.

REAR ELEVATION: 11 tall windows. Timber sash and case windows with plate glass and stylised glazing patterns. West Highland grey slates with generous original rooflights in entrance pitch. Coped stacks.

INTERIOR: fine, Mackintosh inspired, stained pine open timber roof to front range probably by Alan George McNaughtan, with generous rooflights and corbelled brackets. Dadoed walls.

GATEWAY: square, ashlar gatepiers to 2-leaf wrought-iron gates.

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