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Milliken House

Country House (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Milliken House

Classification Country House (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 43226

Site Number NS46SW 29

NGR NS 4163 6358

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Renfrewshire
  • Parish Kilbarchan
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Renfrew
  • Former County Renfrewshire

Archaeology Notes

NS46SW 29 4163 6358

'Milliken House' is depicted on the OS 2nd Edition map (Renfrewshire, sheet II, 1913). It was demolished in the 1930s.

Information from RCAHMS (HMLB), September 2001.

Architecture Notes

NMRS REFERENCE:

Architect: 1773. Destroyed by fire 1801

rebuilt 1836.

Demolished c. 1936

Seat of Sir William Milliken Napier Bart.

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Scottish Records Office

Printed particulars on the Estate of Milliken which is for sale.

The House is approached by three avenues, two of which have gate lodges.

There are greenhouses, peach houses, cucumber and melon pits in the gardens.

Prints of drawings of the West and East Fronts of the house and a coloured plan of the estate are included.

1886 GD 148/402/4

Mitchel Library

J Maclehose' 'Country Houses' - 1 photograph

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