Gardens · Central Scotland
Pollokshaws Hall, 2025 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow
Pollokshaws Hall, 2025 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow — a garden in scotland-central, United Kingdom.
Thomas Nugent — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2.5 h
- Best time of year
- Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)
About
Pollokshaws Hall, 2025 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow is a garden of interest in scotland-central, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
The Pollokshaws Burgh Hall is a municipal building at the edge of Pollok Country Park, Glasgow, Scotland. The burgh hall, which was briefly the headquarters of Pollokshaws Burgh Council, is a Category A listed building.
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Background
History
The building was commissioned and endowed for future maintenance by the politician, Sir John Stirling Maxwell of Pollok House as a gift for the people of Pollokshaws. The site he selected in Pollokshaws Road had formed part of the Old Pollok Estate, which had been home to the Maxwell family for over 700 years. The burgh hall was designed by Robert Rowand Anderson in the Scottish Renaissance style The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage with four bays facing Pollokshaws Road; the left bay featured a round-headed doorway on the ground floor with a square tower with cupola above of a similar style to the then recently-demolished Glasgow College in the High Street; the right hand…
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 55.8254, -4.2983
- Established
- 1898
Sources
- wikidata: Q17569132 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Pollokshaws Burgh Hall (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Pollokshaws Hall, 2025 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow?
- Pollokshaws Hall, 2025 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow is in central Scotland, United Kingdom.
- When was Pollokshaws Hall, 2025 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow built?
- Built or established in 1898.
- Who owns Pollokshaws Hall, 2025 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow?
- Pollokshaws Hall, 2025 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow is owned by | designation1 =Category A Listed Building.