![]() | M231 Alterations to Gadgirth, near AnnbankAddress: near Annbank, AyrshireDate: 1903–4 Client: Finlay Smith Authorship: ![]() |
- 1808
-
Gadgirth House built, replacing earlier castle. 1
- 1903
- 22 August: Earliest payment to
contractor.
2
- 1904
- October: Latest payments to contractors.
3
- 1905
- A drawing of the new library at Gadgirth is exhibited at
the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts alongside perspectives of The Hill
House and an elevation of T. & R.
Annan's premises. The library drawing does not appear to have
been published.
4
- 1949
- August: Gadgirth Estate is sold at auction. The house is
bought by Ayrshire County Council who propose to convert it into a children's
home. 5
- 1953
- June: Gadgirth
opens as an Ayrshire County Council children's home with 23 places. 6
- 1968
- House
demolished.
7
Notes:
1: Zane Love, Lost Ayrshire, Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2005, p. 112.
2: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh job book, GLAHA 53062, p. 23.
3: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh job book, GLAHA 53062, p. 25.
4: Roger Billcliffe, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts 1861–1989 : A Dictionary of Exhibitors at the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Glasgow: Woodend Press, 1990–2, vol. 2, p. 245.
5: 'Gadgirth Estate Sale', Ayrshire Post, 12 August 1949, p. 4.
6: 'County Council open Gadgirth House', Ayrshire Post, 26 June 1953, p. 10.
7: Zane Love, Lost Ayrshire, Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2005, p. 112.