Glasgow, Pollokshaws Road, Pollok Park, Pollok House, Saw Mill

Lodge, Pollok House, 97 Haggs Road, 1892, R Rowand Anderson. Scottish classical with shallow conical slate roof over a broad semicircular bay window. Shawmuir Lodge, Pollok Avenue, 2060 Pollokshaws Road, 1891, Robert Rowand Anderson. Scots Classical Lodge with bell-cast slate hipped roof. Tall square gatepiers with urns and decorative wrought-iron gates. Estate Bridge over River Cart, 1757. Single wide segmental arch, balustraded parapet, roadway widens at abutments. Stables Range, 17th to 19th century. Courtyard Range on site of previous house, the Laigh Castle, includes handsome Renaissance gateway (north-west side) and more 17th-century work incorporated into later buildings. Weir, Sawmill and Power Station, c.1860 for Sir John Stirling-Maxwell. Weir may be 18th century. Single-storey brick sawmill with early machinery, although a turbine replaces the low-breast water wheel. Late 19th-century Power Station, with Waverley turbine by Carrick & Ritchie of Edinburgh.

Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk

To SW of stables, beside River Cart, sawmill, power station and caul (weir). SAWMILL may be mid 19th century; single storey and brick, much early machinery survives. 1888 Holyoake turbine replaces original low-breast waterwheel; alongside, the late 19th/early 20th century 4 x 2-bay POWER STATION with domestic-looking windows, key-blocked roundels in gable-heads. Waverley turbine built by Carrick & Ritchie of Edinburgh (Historic Scotland)