Architecture Notes

Event ID 839828

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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Precise location of Blythswood House uncertain at time of upgrade, 17.4.2000

Architect: James Gillespie Graham, 1821.

For plans of Estate of Blythswood see NS56NE 1189 5847 6570, Glasgow, Blythswood, General.

NMRS REFERENCE:

RIAS Collection

Glasgow, 2 copies - missing at time of upgrade, 2.5.2000

Insc: 'James Watt's House, Delftfield Lane. Silvercraig's Land, Foot of Saltmarket. Town residence of the late Kirkman Findlay Esq. Queen Street. Old Town residence of Campbell of Blythswood, Bridgegate'.

Lithographed views of Glasgow.

u.s

n.d

(219x280)

Acc. No. 1993/89

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Sources: Strathclyde Regional Archives - Town Clerk's Department

D-TC 13/456 A, B

Mr. Barclay's Property, Bridgegate.

Old House in Bridegate, formerly Blythswood House.

The propertry of Mr Barclay.

A. Ground plan of this property together together with a drawing reproduced by lithography of the frontage of Bridegate. The property adjoined the Old Clothes Market on East and the Merchant's lane on West.

B.Also lithographic view of this property.

Surveyor: Not given. 20ft. to 1 in. 14"x9" (1830).

Lithographed by Gardner and Stevenson, 45 Gordon Street.

Mitchell Library, 'Glasgow in Former Times', p.99 - 1 lithograph.