La Belle Place, Kelvingrove Park Public Convenience and Shelter (Opposite Royal Terrace) Glasgow, Scotland
Listed Building Data
La Belle Place, Kelvingrove Park Public Convenience and Shelter (Opposite Royal Terrace) has been designated a scheduled monument in Scotland with the following information. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- Historic Scotland ID
- 396309 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 48833
- Canmore ID
- 234012
- Category
- C
- Name
- La Belle Place, Kelvingrove Park Public Convenience and Shelter (opposite Royal Terrace)
- Parish
- Glasgow
- County
- Glasgow, City Of
- Easting
- 257412
- Northing
- 666111
- Date Listed
- 12 August 2002
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
City Engineer, Office of Publc Works, Glasgow Council, erected and dated 1913. Single storey, red brick rectangular plan block with distinctive gambrel roof. Red ashlar cill band course. Segmental-headed openings. W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: mirrored 4-bay with 2 large round-arched doorways to centre (tripartite glazed openings), right door to boys' convenience, left to girls', flanked in outer bays by paired slender windows. E (REAR) ELEVATION: irregular. 2 doorways to centre of different widths (left to tools store, right to men's convenience), flanked to right by 2 larger and 1 narrow window, and to outer left by single larger window. N AND S ELEVATIONS: each with paired windows to centre, those to N narrower. Grey slate gambrel roof with deep gable to apex and deep piended bellcast apron below. Louvred ventilators in gableheads and to swept dormer to rear. Red clay ridge tiles. Decorative water hoppers to principal elevation and to rear, that to front dated '1913'.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Designed to serve a playground area, with octagonal louvred fleche ventilator to centre of ridge, with bell-cast polygonal spire. No evidence on exterior of current roof of the fleche having been in place but possibly replaced later by gable end ventilators. The Park Superintendent planned 'improvements to the amenity of the park' as early as February 1912, notably for the playgrounds. Local residents complained at the proposal of this 'latrine' block in 1913.
Listed Building References
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
City of Glasgow Dean of Guild drawings, drawings dated March 1913. Information courtesy of Fiona Jamieson. Kelvingrove park Committee Minutes, 28 February 1912, 2 October 1912, 29 November 1912, 1 August 1913.
