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Gymnasium, Hutchesons' Grammar School, 44 Kingarth Street, Glasgow

A Category B Listed Building in Glasgow, Glasgow

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.8385 / 55°50'18"N

Longitude: -4.267 / 4°16'1"W

OS Eastings: 258129

OS Northings: 662905

OS Grid: NS581629

Mapcode National: GBR 0JV.3T

Mapcode Global: WH3P8.FJB0

Plus Code: 9C7QRPQM+95

Entry Name: Gymnasium, Hutchesons' Grammar School, 44 Kingarth Street, Glasgow

Listing Name: 44 Kingarth Street, Calder Street, Hutcheson's Grammar School Annexe, Janitors Lodge and Gymnasium Block

Listing Date: 23 March 1992

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 377569

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB33694

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200377569

Location: Glasgow

County: Glasgow

Town: Glasgow

Electoral Ward: Southside Central

Traditional County: Lanarkshire

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Description

Thomson and Sandilans, 1910-12, as girls' school. Large 3-storey palace-rronted block with renaissance ornament. Red ashlar. Main front to Kingarth Street, pair baroque tall square pvailions containing entrances and with belfrys are linked by centrepiece, low projection at ground also with entrance, 1st floor tall round-arched hall windows with paired flanking Ionic columns, balustrade, near fully-glazed storey above containing art rooms; otherwise, single windows, key-blocked at 1st floor; (S) elevation to Calder Street repeats detailings of front but is simplified, pedimented centrepiece and shallow flanking pavilions all raised above wall-head; glazing mostly original; mutule cornice; slate roof. L-plan 2-storey janitor's LODGE, with shlallow-domed turret, presumably part of original compositon; also GYMNASIUM block to Calder Stret; ashlar piers and iron-railed low walls.

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