Gate Piers, Langside College, 124 Prospecthill Road, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 May 1993.

Gate Piers, Langside College, 124 Prospecthill Road, Glasgow

WRENN ID
stony-footing-reed
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow South MP: Gordon McKee (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 May 1993
OS grid reference
NS 582 616
Coordinates
55.82764, -4.26396
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Langside College, located at 124 Prospecthill Road in Glasgow, was designed by Salmon, Son and Ritchie in 1867 as a lodge for the Deaf and Dumb Institution, which is now a college. The building is a large, symmetrical block featuring French Gothic detailing. The façade has a variety of wall planes that step forward and rise towards the center, creating complex roof forms. The two-storey wings have shallow advanced pavilions, each with a first-floor oriel window and iron-crested French roofs.

The three-storey central block primarily features two-light windows and includes a central entrance bay with a columned doorpiece. Above this entrance are tripartite windows, and the steep iron-crested French roof has an inset dormer. The design includes shafted mullions and arched ground floor windows with stilted heads above the mullioned sections. The exterior is made of polychrome yellow ashlar with red bands and details, and it features horizontal bands and original glazing, all topped with slate roofs.

The detailing continues along the flanks and smaller rear wings of the building.

Local climate

Gate Piers, Langside College, 124 Prospecthill Road, 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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