M197 Addition and alterations to 29 Hamilton Drive

1–33 Hamilton Drive is a terrace of two-storey houses of 1857–9, designed by the architect-builder Robert Crawford (c. 1803–61). 1

John Honeyman & Keppie's addition at the rear of 29 is a small, roughcast structure with a slated roof and half-timbered gable. It is attached to the elevated ground floor of the house, above the basement, and rests on a grid of steel beams and joists, supported by the garden wall and by a cast-iron column at its S.E. corner. The plans approved by the Glasgow Dean of Guild Court in May 1901 show a bathroom and toilet occupying the W. half, while the rest serves as a conservatory, its S. and E. elevations consisting largely of windows. Today (2014), the whole extension is a single room, and an external staircase to the garden has been added at the S.W. corner. A small outdoor toilet is tucked underneath at basement level.

The combination of half-timbering and roughcast – derived from architects of the Arts and Crafts movement such as C. F. A. Voysey – is at odds with the classical, stone elevation of the terrace. The design lacks the subtlety of Mackintosh's harled houses, Windyhill and The Hill House, but the drawings appear to be in his hand, and he was probably responsible for the design. The square cast-iron column with its flared capital resembles the column in the S.W. transept gallery at Queen's Cross Church.

Access to the extension from the house is via a narrow passage, created by subdividing a former dressing room with a timber and glass partition. This work is not shown on the 1901 Dean of Guild plans, but stylistically it appears to date from the early 20th-century.

A report on the condition of the extension was produced as part of the Mackintosh Buildings Survey, led by the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society and carried out between 2015 and 2016. 2