Cardinal Newman High School

Cardinal Newman High School, designed and built between 1972 and 1977, is a large late Modernist secondary school built by the Lanarkshire Education Authority Architects' Department, based on initial designs by Richard Cannon. The building is set in an open landscape near a residential area and Strathclyde Country Park. The main access to the school is across a narrow bridge over the railway line to the north of the school.

It has a centralised, segmental plan that radiates outward from a metal-clad substation with glazed upper sections. Curving around the substation in a semi-ellipse is the main four-storey teaching block. The teaching block has a raked-angle concrete frame and glazed curtain walls sloping outwards to either side with metal grid frames. The outer (south-facing) arc is accentuated by four projecting stair towers. There are raised external walkways with entrances at the two central stair towers. The ends of the teaching block are trapezoidal in shape and clad with red-brown engineering brick. The science, engineering and technical blocks, games hall, theatre and music blocks are linked to the main teaching block around its outer arc, stepping down in height towards the outer periphery of the plan. These outlying blocks are predominantly of red brick with splayed plans, sloped glazed sections and metal-clad roofs.

The structural framework is visible throughout the interior (seen in 2017) with girder roof structures and exposed brick and block work creating a paired-back but unified treatment. Corridors adjoining the outlying blocks largely have ribbon glazed top-lights. The ground floor of the teaching block is divided into four year-group areas, each with its own allocated dining halls and colour-coded communal areas. There are classrooms on the third floor and the art department is on the fourth floor. A training kitchen and restaurant area beside the reception has views over the interior of the games hall, and access to a viewing balcony. Planters are integrated into cills throughout the main circulation spaces.

There is a detached annex to the northeast of the school, known as Willowbank. This building, which has two mono-pitch roof sections, is not of special architectural or historic interest and is excluded from the listing. In accordance with Section 1 (4A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 the following are excluded from the listing: Willowbank Annexe to northeast.