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Latitude: 55.8745 / 55°52'28"N
Longitude: -4.2853 / 4°17'7"W
OS Eastings: 257115
OS Northings: 666949
OS Grid: NS571669
Mapcode National: GBR 0DF.DX
Mapcode Global: WH3P2.4LMX
Plus Code: 9C7QVPF7+QV
Entry Name: Hillhead High School, 44 Oakfield Avenue, Hillhead, Glasgow
Listing Name: 44 Oakfield Avenue and 37 Southpark Avenue, Hillhead High School and Entrance Lodge
Listing Date: 6 February 1989
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 376095
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB32909
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Hillhead, 44 Oakfield Avenue, Hillhead High School
ID on this website: 200376095
Location: Glasgow
County: Glasgow
Town: Glasgow
Electoral Ward: Hillhead
Traditional County: Lanarkshire
Tagged with: Secondary school School building
E G Wylie, competition 1921, completed 1929. Double
Y-plan school building. Central administrative and
general block with radiating gallery-access classroom
ranges; the end and angle blocks pseudo-tower emphasis.
3 storeys. Red brick with exposed concrete and some
ashlar dressings.
HILLHEAD STREET ELEVATION: with parapet raised at centre
and monogram inset; rear windows of classrooms grouped
in 3s with pilaster mullions; 1st and 2nd floor windows
linked in panel. Gallery elevations (to E) partially
infilled.
ENTRANCE LODGE (Hillhead Street): 2 and 3-storey set in
slope with wide tripartite entrance. 3 small bipartites in
1st floor; side elevations with arched and keystoned
detail. Bell-cast Westmorland slate roof, coped stacks.
SOUTHPARK AVENUE ELEVATION: as above except wide
vertically emphasised entrance bay with canted angles;
wide door set in moulded architraves, some simple carved
detail: open galleries to E detailed as above.
INTERIOR: galleried hall, war memorial plaque (relocated from Hillhead Primary School, 2013). Original panelled doors survive. Simply detailed iron work to guard rail above stair
balustrade.
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