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M204 Alterations and additions to Monktonmiln, Prestwick

Address: Monkton
Date: 1901–3
Client: Finlay Bell
Authorship:

(Office)

1901: 5 and 10 October: Contractor tenders submitted. 1
5 December: Earliest payment to contractor. 2

1903: March: Latest payments to contractors. 3

By 1960: House and outbuildings demolished to make way for fuel storage tanks at Prestwick Airport. 4

Notes:

1: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: John Honeyman & Keppie / Honeyman Keppie & Mackintosh job book, GLAHA 53061, pp. 247, 249.

2: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: John Honeyman & Keppie / Honeyman Keppie & Mackintosh job book, GLAHA 53061, p. 248.

3: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: John Honeyman & Keppie / Honeyman Keppie & Mackintosh job book, GLAHA 53061, pp. 248, 250.

4: In a correspondence of 1958–60 between Ayrshire County Council and the Ministry of Aviation regarding a third fuel storage tank installation at Prestwick Airport, Monktonmiln is mentioned as an existing site of similar storage tanks. Auchencruive, Ayr, South Ayrshire Archives: Minutes of Ayrshire County Council Prestwick Airport sub-committee, 29 June 1960, CO3/8/5/36.

'Mackintosh Architecture' led by The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council; with additional support from The Monument Trust, The Pilgrim Trust, and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; and collaborative input from Historic Scotland and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.