Glasgow, Bridgegate, Blythswood House
House (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Glasgow, Bridgegate, Blythswood House
Classification House (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Merchant Lane
Canmore ID 162564
Site Number NS56SE 461
NGR NS 5933 6468
NGR Description c. NS 5933 6468
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/162564
- Council Glasgow, City Of
- Parish Glasgow (City Of Glasgow)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District City Of Glasgow
- Former County Lanarkshire
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.
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(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.
