THE ABANDONED Former Telephone Exchange

The former telephone exchange at Tradeston has seen better days, but can the red brick beauty be brought back from the brink, or is it too late already? Telephone Exchange: Built in the 1930s, architect unknown, though quite probably designed inhouse by the City Corporation department. Currently vacant and derelict this large predominantly red brick building sits isolated on the corner of Centre Street and Cook Street in the Tradeston area of southside area of the city. Constructed with a high quality facing brick, with a coursed ashlar ground floor and ashlar upper floor with numerous ashlar details. The ashlar is blond sandstone, which has become darkly stained over the years. The south and west elevations are the public faces of the building, the east elevation maintains this use of facing brick on its upper exposed level, the north elevation is faced with a less expensive common brick and was originally hidden by a building (since demolished) sited adjoining our building to the north. Six brick piers range down the south elevation punctuated by pairs of windows. Overall the building appears outwardly to be in a fair condition, though numerous broken windows, the ingress of pigeons and occasional graffiti reflects the ongoing neglect. The state of the roof cannot be ascertained, although form the condition and lack of maintenance of the rest of the building it is highly likely the roof is leaking in some form or another. The building is category B-listed. #scotland #abandonedplaces #abandonedplacesuk #explore #explorepage #fypシ #scotlandhistory #urbex #abandoned #gopro #glasgow #youtube like and subscribe share videos