Mecca Bingo (Former Vogue Cinema), 56 Main Street is a Grade C listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 August 2005. 1 related planning application.
Mecca Bingo (Former Vogue Cinema), 56 Main Street
- WRENN ID
- drifting-newel-ebony
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Rutherglen MP: Michael Shanks (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 August 2005
- Address
- Mecca Bingo (Former Vogue Cinema), 56 Main Street, G73 2HY
- OS grid reference
- NS 612 616
- Coordinates
- 55.82816, -4.2173
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Mecca Bingo, formerly the Vogue Cinema, is an Art Deco building designed by John McKissack & Son and constructed between 1935 and 1936. The structure features a brick auditorium with a pitched roof, and it is fronted by a white faience-clad entrance façade that steps up towards the center. On either side of the main entrance, there are small shops. The building is constructed with a brick on a steel or reinforced concrete frame, showcasing a white tiled frontage.
The principal elevation includes four two-leaf doors set in a recessed entrance beneath a curved canopy. The entrance is adorned with a moulded rectangular Art Deco pediment, which has a bracketed cornice and a stepped central finial, with truncated fluted columns on either side. The auditorium itself is roughly rectangular with a tapered rear end.
Inside, there is an imperial staircase at the back of the entrance foyer, featuring Art Deco balusters and tapered columns on either side. The auditorium has a curved ceiling with a large 'O' shape in a cusped recess at its center. The stage is flanked by columns set in a curved proscenium, and there is a concave curved balcony with Art Deco mouldings. The building also includes staircases leading to the balcony and projection room, as well as several pairs of original two-leaf swing doors.
Local climate
Mecca Bingo (Former Vogue Cinema), 56 Main Street 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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