Gallowhill House, Paisley, view of entrance front.
SC 700518
Description Gallowhill House, Paisley, view of entrance front.
Date 1890
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number SC 700518
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BL 10121
Scope and Content Gallowhill House, Paisley, Renfrewshire (now demolished) Gallowhill House, a large mansion in a commanding position to the north-east of Paisley, was designed in 1867 by the Glasgow firm of architects, James Salmon & Son, for Peter Kerr, a Paisley threadmaker. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the exterior in 1890. This rambling, two-storeyed house is designed in a French Baronial style with a square, four-storeyed tower and an impressive entrance porch. The principal rooms are bay-windowed, and corbelled oriels denote the main rooms on the upper floor. The Kerr family were old-established Paisley threadmakers once famous for their 'nine-cord thread'. The family business was eventually absorbed into the firm of Clark & Company, hugely successful cotton thread manufacturers who employed thousands of the town's workers, and had a factory outlet in America. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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