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Latitude: 55.8423 / 55°50'32"N
Longitude: -4.2746 / 4°16'28"W
OS Eastings: 257667
OS Northings: 663346
OS Grid: NS576633
Mapcode National: GBR 0GT.KG
Mapcode Global: WH3P8.9FQ2
Plus Code: 9C7QRPRG+W5
Entry Name: Pollokshields Primary School, 241 Albert Drive, Pollokshields, Glasgow
Listing Name: 241 Albert Drive and Herriet Street, (Including Academy Building to Herriet Street), Pollokshields Primary School Including Gatepiers, Playground Walls and Railings
Listing Date: 15 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 376997
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB33370
Building Class: Cultural
Location: Glasgow
County: Glasgow
Town: Glasgow
Electoral Ward: Pollokshields
Traditional County: Renfrewshire
H and D Barclay, 1882, variant of their palazzo-style
pattern for Glasgow's board schools. 2 storeys,
symmetrical 3-bay elevation to Albert Drive, wide 3-
light windows with pilastered mullions, fluted at
ground, sculptured panels at 1st floor, central bay
narrower with doorpiece at ground. Polished ashlar, band
course between floors, original T-shaped glazing
pattern, mutule cornice, piended slate roofs. Flank
elevations similarly detailed with recessed wide
centres. To Herriet Street a plainer and later range
(1901), as Albert Road Academy of similar scale with
symmetrical front.
Playground part enclosed by stone wall, part iron-
railed, square gatepiers.
D Barclay was apprehended for culpable homicide after
the collapse of a shed (see above reference and
subsequent issues).
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