Balgray Tower, 50 Broomfield Road, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1979. Villa.
Balgray Tower, 50 Broomfield Road, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- strange-entrance-birch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North East MP: Maureen Burke (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1979
- Type
- Villa
- OS grid reference
- NS 606 682
- Coordinates
- 55.88715, -4.22949
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Balgray Tower is a picturesque Gothic villa built around 1830 for Duncan of Mosesfield, designed by architect David Hamilton, who also constructed Mosesfield House. The building features a castellated tower and is currently abandoned as of 1988. It is constructed of rubble with peeling harl and has ashlar dressings. The crenellated parapets conceal the roofs. The villa is single-storey and arranged in a U-plan, with the tower centrally located at the west. The west elevation has two bays, with the semi-octagonal tower breaking forward in the center and canted windows in the flanking bays.
The tower has round-headed bipartite windows, some of which have hood-moulds and slits. A string course below the parapet features masks set at angles, and a circular staircase turret at the rear rises above, topped with a cap-house. Both flank walls have a niche set in the wall near the west end. The door on the north flank has a depressed ogee head, with a dummy cross-loop alongside.
Local climate
Balgray Tower, 50 Broomfield 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 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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