Tabernacle Street, Greenlees Road, Cambuslang is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 August 1989. School. 1 related planning application.

Tabernacle Street, Greenlees Road, Cambuslang

WRENN ID
salt-cloister-bracken
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Lanarkshire
Constituency
Rutherglen MP: Michael Shanks (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 August 1989
Type
School
Address
Tabernacle Street, Greenlees Road, Cambuslang, G72 8JN
OS grid reference
NS 643 604
Coordinates
55.81776, -4.16683
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The building located on Tabernacle Street and Greenlees Road in Cambuslang is a board school designed by A Lindsay Miller and dated 1882. It features gothic architectural details and has a long single-storey front facing Greenlees Road, with a basement on the left due to the slope of the site. The advanced ends include a gable on the right and a range to the left that has a square tower topped with a slated spire, which is set within a parapet over a plain square stage that may have originally been louvred. The façade includes a doorway, stepped stair lights, and a gabled window head, along with three gabled window heads on the inner range. The exterior is constructed of stugged ashlar with polished dressings, featuring transomed and cross-windows, blind cusped panels, and some sculptured details. There are inscriptions in roundels at either end, and sash windows are present throughout. Each section has individual slate roofs with axial ventilators and stacks that have fluted friezes.

A low boundary wall with iron railings connects the advanced outer ranges to the street. The flank facing Tabernacle Street was built in two stages; the original part on the left includes the main doorway and gated steps, with a datestone from 1882 above. The addition is two-storeyed and sits at a lower level on the slope, consisting of eight bays. There is a pend on the left at the junction with the original block, featuring an off-centre door. The detailing from the original section is repeated in a simplified manner, including cross windows and sculptured details. At the rear, there is a courtyard with arcaded, mostly blind wide basement openings in the original range, and a timber-clad passageway supported on cast-iron columns that links the two main ranges.

Local climate

Tabernacle Street, Greenlees Road, Cambuslang sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% 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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