Public Convenience And Shelter, Kelvingrove Park, La Belle Place, Glasgow is a Grade C listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 August 2002. Public convenience.

Public Convenience And Shelter, Kelvingrove Park, La Belle Place, Glasgow

WRENN ID
tattered-keystone-pigeon
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 August 2002
Type
Public convenience
OS grid reference
NS 574 661
Coordinates
55.86701, -4.28014
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The public convenience and shelter in Kelvingrove Park, La Belle Place, Glasgow, was built in 1913 by the City Engineer's Office of Public Works for Glasgow Council. This single-storey structure has a rectangular plan and is constructed of red brick, featuring a distinctive gambrel roof. It includes a red ashlar cill band course and segmental-headed openings.

On the west (principal) elevation, the building has a mirrored four-bay design with two large round-arched doorways at the center. The right doorway leads to the boys' convenience and the left to the girls', with paired slender windows flanking each outer bay.

The east (rear) elevation is irregular, featuring two doorways of different widths at the center: the left leads to a tools store and the right to the men's convenience. To the right of this doorway are two larger windows and one narrow window, while the outer left has a single larger window.

The north and south elevations each have paired windows at the center, with the northern windows being narrower. The grey slate gambrel roof has a deep gable at the apex and a deep piended bellcast apron below. Louvred ventilators are present in the gableheads and in a swept dormer at the rear. The roof is finished with red clay ridge tiles. Decorative water hoppers are located on both the principal elevation and the rear, with the front one dated '1913'.

Local climate

Public Convenience And Shelter, Kelvingrove Park, La Belle Place, 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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