Shettleston Hall:
Built 1922-25 by Glasgow Corporation this large town hall was largely destroyed by fire in the early hours of 23rd May 2008. Following the fire the majority of the building was demolished leaving just the retained facade with heavy steel beams affixed to the front (east) elevation and a large steel frame to the rear providing support. The site as a whole is fenced off.
fThe building is constructed using a pale red smooth surfaced brick with ashlar extensively used for the doorway and around windows and as a top band on the building. The building is similar in materials and styles to other Glasgow Corporation designs of the era such as the telephone exchange on Centre Street.
street address: 150 Wellshot Road, Shettleston, Glasgow, G32 7AX
Latitude / Longitude: 55.849075,-4.174946 (sourced using Google Maps)
site visit date: 13 July 2011
east elevation onto Wellshot Road, symmetrical in design with an addition to the north (right of the photograph) the east elevation has a large triple double door entrance way (13/07/2011)
north end of the east elevation (13/07/2011)
Signage (13/07/2011)
east elevation (13/07/2011)
ashlar surrounded triple double doored entrance with rustication (13/07/2011)
heavy fine stone carving around the doors (13/07/2011)
first of the three pictorial carvings over the doorways, each is an image found on many Glasgow buildings and asscoiated with St Mungo, the patron saint of Glasgow (13/07/2011)
second of the three pictorial carvings over the doorways (13/07/2011)
third of the three pictorial carvings over the doorways (13/07/2011)
view north along the east elevation (13/07/2011)
corbels to each side of the entrance doors (13/07/2011)
deeply recessed windows either side of the entrance doors (13/07/2011)
view looking up the east elevation from just in front of the stairs to the entrance doorways (13/07/2011)
view of the top storey of the front (east) elevation with heavy steel beam bolted through the structure to support the retained facade (13/07/2011)
bolts holding the steel support beams are passed through the open windows preventing needless damage to the facade (13/07/2011)
doorway at the south end of the front elevation (13/07/2011)
finely carved surround to the round windows of the first floor (13/07/2011)
view of the south elevation and north along the front (east) elevation (13/07/2011)
south elevation (13/07/2011)
view of the south end of the broken west elevation and to the right of the photograph the south elevation (13/07/2011)
view from the west of the rear of the front facade now supported by a large steel framework (13/07/2011)
steel support framework (13/07/2011)
steel details (13/07/2011)
the north end of the rear of the remaining part of the building (13/07/2011)
north elevation (13/07/2011)
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