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Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 565990
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/565990
Tollcross House, 591 Tollcross Road, 1848, David Bryce
Scots Baronial country house for James Dunlop. Asymmetrical, ashlar, crowsteps, pedimented dormers, cone-roofed turret on low service wing. Converted to Children's Museum, 1905, Glasgow Corporation. Refurbished and converted to sheltered housing, c.1992, Nicholas Groves-Raines. Saltire Society Commendation, 1994. Lodge, c.1858, crowstep gables, rubble, ashlar dressings. Conservatory, Latin-cross plan, dome at crossing, semicircular ends, cast iron and glass. Tent-like extension, tensile fabric structure, 1990s, Glasgow City Council. The Park is also home to the National Rose Collection.
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
