Savoy Bingo Club (Former Savoy Cinema), Main Street is a Grade C listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 September 2008. Cinema, bingo hall. 6 related planning applications.
Savoy Bingo Club (Former Savoy Cinema), Main Street
- WRENN ID
- silver-storey-wax
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Rutherglen MP: Michael Shanks (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 September 2008
- Type
- Cinema, bingo hall
- Address
- Savoy Bingo Club (Former Savoy Cinema), Main Street, G72 7EP
- OS grid reference
- NS 643 604
- Coordinates
- 55.81851, -4.16605
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Savoy Bingo Club, originally the Savoy Cinema, was designed by John Fairweather in 1929. This four-storey, seven-bay building features a symmetrical design and a monumental Classical street elevation, with a gabled auditorium at the rear. The exterior is constructed of red brick, accented with cream-painted render on the street side. Some windows have raised moulded architraves, while others feature raised cills, and there is a blocking course at the outer bays.
The northern elevation facing the street has a slightly advanced central five-bay section flanked by advanced outer bays. The bays are divided by giant modified Doric pilasters that extend through the first and second storeys. The façade includes a moulded architrave, a decorative frieze with small horizontal windows, a cornice, and a deep blocking course. Shallow steps lead up to a central recessed entrance portico, which is supported by square-plan columns and features three pairs of recessed timber and glass swing doors topped with rectangular fanlights. On either side of the entrance are shops, each with an entrance door and a plate glass window.
The building predominantly has four-pane metal casement and fixed windows, with small diamond-pane fixed windows on the upper storey. The front section has a flat roof, while the auditorium at the rear has a pitched roof. The building was converted into a bingo hall, likely in the early 1960s.
Local climate
Savoy Bingo Club (Former Savoy Cinema), 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 — 6 applications
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