Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 565587
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
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Haggs Castle, St Andrew's Drive, 1585
Rare genuine L-plan rubble Renaissance country seat of the Maxwells, later of Pollok, until 1595; the plan typical of houses built during James VI's minority. Abandoned since 1753, restored, c.1859, John Baird II, for Pollok estate factor's house. Distinctive cable mouldings, crowsteps, slate roofs, original door, elaborate ornament above. Enlarged circular stairturret and entrance, c.1890, low Baronial wings, c.1900. Divided into flats, 1940s; converted to Museum, 1972; returned to residential use, 1990s.
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
