Possil School Gymnasium:
Built 1930-34 and designed by architect James Taylor Thomson (1878/8-1953). The building is flat roofed and has a distinctive thirties style. It was designed as a gymnasium and is the last remaining part of Possil School. The former gymnasium (also known as Hodge Court) now sits empty and boarded up with petty signs of vandalism (broken windows, spray paint graffitti). The rest of the school occupied the site behind the gymnasium and was also designed by Thomson in the early 1930s. The rest of the school buildings were demolished in 2004 and housing built on the site. At the rear the building appears as a single storey, and then at the Balmore Road elevation the site steps down to the road and the building reveals itself as a single storey with a basement. Constructed of brick with ashlar end portions and ashlar detailing, all four elevations are symmetrical, the Balmore Road elevation has ten window bays, the central one has ashlar elements defining its centrality. The building is category C listed.

street address: 426 Balmore Road, Glasgow, G22 6NT
Latitude / Longitude: 55.891312,-4.2591 (sourced using Google Maps)
site visit date: 19 May 2011

north elevation and long west elevation onto Balmore Road (19/05/2011)


centre of the Balmore Road elevation with the projecting central ashlar piece (19/05/2011)


centre of the Balmore Road elevation, note the ashlar banding defining the floors of the building (19/05/2011)


south elevation and looking up the Balmore Road (west) elevation (19/05/2011)


south elevation (19/05/2011)


south elevation, with the brick central entrance at the rear just visible through the leaves of the tree to the right of the photograph (19/05/2011)


south elevation and looking northwards along the rear elevation. The large projecting brick part of the building can clearly be seen giving the building its flattened T shape plan design (19/05/2011)


rear (east) elevation from the north-east (19/05/2011)


graffitti, booarded up windows and the roof top access ladder (19/05/2011)


no unauthorised access (19/05/2011)


smashed light fitting on the north elevation (19/05/2011)


north-west corner and wrought-iron gateway on Balmore Road (19/05/2011)




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