Milngavie, Mugdock, Reservoir, Barrachan

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This group of buildings sitting on land between Mugdock and Craigmaddie Reservoirs has the appearance of a farmsteading. However, it may have been used by Glasgow Corporation Waterworks as it is sitting on land acquired to enable the building of the Mugdock Reservoir in the 1850s and the later Craigmaddie Reservoir along with ancillary structures. The 'steading' has two blocks of dwellings, a 'workshop' type building and outbuilding.

The building layout appears to have been remodelled/rebuilt between 1865 and 1923. The digital Ordnance Survey, 1:10560, 1st Epoch sheet 83NS57NE, 1864-5 shows four ranges of roofed buildings. However, the digital Ordnance Survey, 1:10560, 2nd Epoch sheet 83NS57NE, 1899 shows an addition of a west-east aligned wing to the south forming a coutryard. The digital Ordnance Survey, 1:10560, 3rd Epoch sheet 83NS57NE, 1922-3 shows that the western north-south aligned range has been removed and the layout is as it appears on the current 1:10,000 Ordnance Survey map.

These buildings were photographed as they may be adversly affected by upgrading project of the Loch Katrine water scheme which is currently underway.

Information from RCAHMS (MMD), 10 October 2007.

2-storey, 3-bay, gabled house with some stone-mullioned bipartite windows. Squared, snecked sandstone. Raised quoin strips. Regular fenestration with raised margins and projecting cills. Non-traditional 1940s front door to centre flanked by bipartites; bipartite window with gabled dormerhead breaking eaves at first floor to right. Regular fenestration to rear with tall bipartite stair window at centre. Coped stacks with yellow clay cans. Slate roof. Interior modernised circa 1947. (Historic Environment Scotland List Entry)

Part of a larger complex of buildings at Barrachan site.

L-plan, piend-roofed range of groundsmen's and works' offices and workshops. Squared, snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings. Irregular fenestration with projecting cills; some stone-mullioned multi-light windows to E and S elevations. Advanced, crowstep-gabled porch to E elevation with 2-leaf timber-boarded door in left return. (Historic Environment Scotland List Entry)

Part of a larger complex of buildings at Barrachan site.

Single storey and attic, 4-bay range with gabled, bargeboarded dormers breaking eaves at first floor. Roughly coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings. Regular fenestration with projecting cills. Lean-to outshot at rear containing entrance doors and outhouses. Corniced ridge stacks with assorted clay cans. (Historic Environment Scotland List Entry)

Part of a larger complex of buildings at Barrachan site.

Small, piend-roofed out building to rear of cottage. Garden terrace retaining wall to rear and side (W). Boundary wall to rear and sides. (Historic Environment Scotland List Entry) (Historic Environment Scotland List Entry)

Part of a larger complex of buildings at Barrachan site.