Glasgow, 225 Scotland Street, Scotland Street School, Janitor's House

Scotland Street School, 225 Scotland Street, 1904, Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Severe red ashlar budget school, with sparse Art Nouveau decoration. Standard plan of classrooms stacked above the central hall, cloakrooms at the ends, beyond the pair of glittering glass staircase towers, one each for the girls and boys. Like the stairtowers, evocative of the Loire chateaux which influenced many Scottish castles, the dramatic west gable (the east is now hidden) demonstrates Mackintosh's fascination with Scots Renaissance domestic architecture, as used at the Hill House in 1902 and more famously at the Glasgow School of Art, 1907. The swept-down roof of the Janitor's House, like Windyhill in 1900, is a Voysey device (see Central Glasgow, North Cylde Estuary and South Clyde Estuary Guides). Converted to Museum, 1990s. Open to the public, guide book.

Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk

NS56SE 328.01 57728 64173 Janitor's House

NMRS Notes.

Glasgow, 225 Scotland Street - Scotland Street School.

Architect: - CR Mackintosh, 1904.

NMRS Plans: Copies of measured survey by Dept. of Architecture, University of Strathclyde, 1970s. 6 photographs plans, elevations and sections.

EXTERNAL REFERENCE.

National Library of Scotland: Academy Architecture, 1906. - Perspective drawing and plans.

Builders Journal & Architectural Engineer, 28th November 1906, p.267-9. - photographs and plans.