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Newton Mearns, Broom, Broom Road East, Kirkhill House
House (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Newton Mearns, Broom, Broom Road East, Kirkhill House
Classification House (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 203856
Site Number NS55NE 178
NGR NS 55588 55901
NGR Description Centred on NS 55588 55901
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/203856
- Council East Renfrewshire
- Parish Mearns
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Eastwood
- Former County Renfrewshire
Kirkhill House, Kirkhill Road, c.1870
Two-storey and attic Jacobean-style villa attached to a simple late 18th-century two-storey house, now an office suite buried in a housing development. Good interior woodwork, including linenfold shutters and doors. Deep plaster cornices to main rooms, attic originally a billiard room.
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
Photographic Survey (2021)
NS 55588 55901 An upstanding building and photographic survey was carried out during the summer of 2021. The fermtoun of Kirkhill is seen on the 1857 OS map. The site of Kirkhill House at this time was the farm buildings to the NW. By the 2nd Edition OS map of 1897, Kirkhill House along with the stables has been built incorporating an earlier building.
Kirkhill House built in 1873 is an asymmetrical two storey and attic villa with Jacobean Revival gables added to a simple late- 18th-/early-19th-century small two-storey, three bay house. The Boyds who bought land and built the house are shown on the 1851 census. The Boyd family crest is the hand and the lion; this is seen externally on the sandstone architecture and internally on the woodwork. The Thomson Foundation Television College took over Kirkhill House in 1963. The height of the building was measured using a Leica Disto D510 laser distance meter. Numerous sandstone carved architectural details on the building were recorded and photographed. A re-used sandstone block on the left of an opening in a later extension added to the SE is inscribed ‘AP 1794’. The internal architectural wooden features including staircases, architrave and rose mouldings were recorded and photographed.
Features formerly in the policies around Kirkhill House were
measured, photographed, and recorded including the bowling green, tennis court and the sandstone pillars on either side of the entrance into Kirkhill Grounds. Random rubble walling around the perimeter of the grounds were recorded including two original entrances one with a blocked-up entrance to Kirkhill Road and another with a wooden door in situ to the NW. Kirkhill House was listed as a category ‘B’ building on 29th May 1985.
The original stables at Kirkhill House, to the SW of the house, have been modernised and converted to office and business space with an extension built around the SE, S, and SW sides. This building is seen on the 2nd Edition OS map of 1895 with an open central area and entrance into this area from the NNW corner. Today the open area has been enclosed and the entrance has a modern door opening.
Susan Hunter and Kenneth Mallard – Association of Certificated Field Archaeologists
(Source: DES Vol 22)
