![]() | M069 Additions and alterations to Craigie HallAddress: 6, Rowan Road, Glasgow G41 5BSDate: 1892–3; 1897–9 Client: Thomas Mason Authorship: ![]() |
- 1872
- Craigie Hall
designed by John Honeyman for merchant Joseph McLean.
1
- 1892
- Craigie Hall acquired by Thomas Mason, building
contractor
13 April: Deadline for tenders for stables. 2
13 May: First contractor tender for work at house accepted. 3
16 June: Dean of Guild Court approval granted. 4
18 June: 'Expenses passing plans at Dean of Guild Court' £10 9s 0d; 'for lodging plans' £2 6s 0d. 5
- 1893
- 6 September: Latest contractor payment for work at
stables.
6
- 1894
- 18 December: Latest contractor payments for work at
house.
7
- 1897
- July: Date of Mackintosh's drawings for music-room
panelling. 8
- 1898
- May: Earliest contractor payment for music room and
organ case.
9
- 1899
- February: Latest contractor
payments for music room and organ case.
10
- 1926
- House sold by Mrs Mason to
cinema owner, Fred Green.
11
- 1978
- An application to Glasgow District Council for
permission to demolish the house leads to the recognition of interior work by
John Honeyman & Keppie, and by Mackintosh. In April, the house is given the highest
statutory protection.
12 The stables,
caretaker's house and greenhouses however are demolished and replaced with a
housing development.
- 1980
- Acquired by Graham
Roxburgh and refurbished between 1980 and 1983 as business premises.
13
- 2013
- The house is vacant and for sale
as a single residence.
14
- 2014
- May: new owners
apply for planning permission to divide the property into 3 homes and remove
the organ case.
Notes:
1: Elizabeth Williamson, Anne Riches and Malcolm Higgs, Buildings of Scotland: Glasgow, London: Penguin, 1990, p. 582.
2: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: John Honeyman & Keppie job book, GLAHA 53059, p. 172.
3: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: John Honeyman & Keppie job book, GLAHA 53059, p. 174.
4: Glasgow City Archives Collection: Glasgow Dean of Guild Court list of cases, D-OPW 19/12, p. 106.
5: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: John Honeyman & Keppie visit book, GLAHA 53060, p. 25.
6: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: John Honeyman & Keppie job book, GLAHA 53059, p. 173.
7: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: John Honeyman & Keppie job book, GLAHA 53059, p. 175.
8: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: GLAHA 41292; GLAHA 41293; GLAHA 41294; GLAHA 52328.
9: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: John Honeyman & Keppie / Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh job book, GLAHA 53061, p. 139.
10: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: John Honeyman & Keppie / Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh job book, GLAHA 53061, p. 139.
11: Graham Roxburgh, A Guide to Craigie Hall, Privately printed, no date [1980s], pp. 2–3.
12: Roger Billcliffe, 'Recent Mackintosh Discoveries', Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society Newsletter, 19, Summer 1978, p. 5. The house is listed category A on 27 April 1978: Historic Scotland listed building report 33583, www.historic-scotland.gov.uk [accessed 11 February 2013].
13: 'Craigie Hall', Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society Newsletter, 30, Autumn 1981, p. 2.
14: Due to its deteriorating condition, the house has been included on the Buildings at Risk Register for Scotland since January 2011. 'Craigie Hall, 6, Rowan Road, Dumbreck', www.buildingsatrisk.org.uk [accessed 7 February 2013].