Architecture Notes

Event ID 665484

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NS56SW 31.00 54867 61850

NS56SE 46 c.5504 6164 Pollok House (Old Pollok House)

NS56SE 109.00 55973 61656 Shawmuir Lodge (East Lodge)

NS56SE 109.01 55967 61649 Gate Piers

NS56SE 459 56074 62464 Lodge (97 Haggs Road)

NS56SE 2168 55395 61585 Shaw Holm (one of the parks at Pollok)

NS56SW 31.01 55048 61753 Walled Garden

NS56SW 31.02 54886 61732 Bridge

NS56SW 31.03 55994 61662 Stables

NS56SW 31.04 54985 61609 Saw Mill

NS56SW 31.05 54844 61252 South Lodge

NS56SW 31.06 54986 61618 Power Station

NS56SW 31.07 54966 61605 Weir

NS56SW 31.08 54844 61835 Western Garden Pavilion

NS56SW 31.09 54907 61802 Eastern Garden Pavilion

NMRS Manuscripts MS/302, missing at time of upgrade show panels of Dutch hunting scenes in dining room made by Ramsay of Scott Morton's designs of Reginald Fairlie and vases in garden by Hew Lorimer.

MISCELLAEOUS:

Nat. Lib.'The Maxwells of Pollock'. By William Fraser. Vol 1 p.98.

This A-listed country house, now in the care of The National Trust for Scotland, was surveyed to increase photographic coverage of it in the NMRS as part of the Listed Buildings Recording Programme (LBRP) for 1999-2000. A comprehensive survey of its exterior and interior has been made, with particular emphasis on the principal rooms. Although research was carried out into the identity of its architect, it was not possible to ascribe it to one individual with certainty. The theory, as presented in the current guidebook, that it was the work of an unnamed Glaswegian architect working within the broad ambit of William Adam's style, remains unassailable at present.

An album made the Maxwell family in the early/mid 19th century, which includes numerous architectural images, was copied for the NMRS.

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Strathclyde Regional Archives, Pollok Maxwell Collection:

'Pollok House' 1813 Sketch of entrance front of Pollok House, representing intended portico by David Hamilton.

Plan and elevation for two roomed cottage (apparently for site opposite old porter's lodge). Tinted. Scale: 4':1". N.d. Site unknown at time of update.

Plan for cottage, smithy and byre. Scale: 41/2':1". N.d. Site unknown at time of update.

National Archives of Scotland: Gd 220/5/884/2-3

'Building of a House at Pollokhead'. Letter from sir John Maxwell of Pollok indicating that he intends to build a new house at Pollokhead 'on the side of the water, where some architects and people of skill tell me I shall find a much more preferable situation to that where the old [house] at present stands'. Enclosed in a letter from the Duke of Montrose to Mungo of Gorthie. 1733.

NMRS REFERENCE:

Farlie manuscripts, missing at time of upgrade 15.8.2000.

Panels to Dutch hunting scenes in dining room made by Ramsay of Cott Morton's to designs of Reginald Farlie, manuscript missing at time of upgrade 15.8.2000.

Vases in garden by Hew Lorimer, manuscript missing at time of upgrade 15.8.2000.