Glasgow, 230 Auldhouse Road, Territorial Army Building
Drill Hall (First World War)(Possible), Drill Hall (20th Century)
Site Name Glasgow, 230 Auldhouse Road, Territorial Army Building
Classification Drill Hall (First World War)(Possible), Drill Hall (20th Century)
Canmore ID 172885
Site Number NS56SE 1187
NGR NS 56026 60783
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/172885
- Council Glasgow, City Of
- Parish Eastwood (City Of Glasgow)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District City Of Glasgow
- Former County Lanarkshire
Osborne (2006) records a drill hall here and it is marked on the 4th epoch 1:2500 map (surveyed 1935) but not on maps of the area surveyed around 1910-11. The Historic Scotland listing description suggests a date around 1920.
It is a symmetrical two-storey front with Scots renaissance ornament, more in the style of contemporary work in Edinburgh than Glasgow; white harled, ashlar detail, block corbelled 1st floor. Crowstepped narrow centre entrance bay, angle turrets with leaded ogee domed roofs; asymmetrically comprised elements recessed on deep flanks. Slate roofed.
In 1914 Osborne records a drill hall in Pollockshaws as the base for "H" Company, 6th battalion, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. He notes that the drill hall also served Thornliebank. The building is still in military use.
Information from HS/RCAHMS World War One Audit Project (GJB) 24 October 2013.
Project (March 2013 - September 2013)
A project to characterise the quantity and quality of the Scottish resource of known surviving remains of the First World War. Carried out in partnership between Historic Scotland and RCAHMS.
