Battlefield Rest
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Battlefield Rest
Image: © Thomas Nugent Taken: 27 Apr 2013
A Category B Listed building, now in use as a bistro. The Historic Scotland listing describes it as follows... Opened 1915, as tramcar shelter. Edwardian baroque detail. Brick-built, faced in cream and green glazed tiles in stripes. Octagonal tower at south with shop at ground, pagoda-like timber stage above capped with wide eaves, and clocks on alternate faces in swagged panels; domed cupola and flagstaff. Central waiting room 5 bays with original seating; gabled to north with Glasgow coat of arms in aedicule at gable head. Public conveniences in semi-octagonal northern bay. Canopies now lost from side elevations.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.826997
Longitude
-4.266346