Pollok Castle
Pollok Castle is a country house in the Pollok suburb of the Scottish city of Glasgow .
history
The first castle was a tower that came from the 11th century. In 1686 Sir Robert Pollok had it torn down and replaced with a large country house. In 1882 the house, which was already empty at the time, was completely destroyed by fire and soon afterwards rebuilt in the Scottish Baronial Style on behalf of Mrs. Ferguson Pollok , with some elements of the earlier buildings that had been preserved.
The house was abandoned again in the 1940s and then fell into ruin. Some of these ruins were blown up in the 1970s. The new owner, a Mr. Greer , who had acquired the property from the city council, had a prefabricated house built on the foundations of Pollok Castle. The gatehouses at both ends of the property were also rebuilt together with the gardener's house and stables and sold as private homes.
The prefabricated house was removed in the early 1990s. The new owner Alex Hewitt had a new country house built in the Scottish Adam style in 2003 . Some of the original foundations and walls of the old country house were preserved, in particular a section of the five meter high wall on the northern moat .
Sources and web links
- YES strand: A History of Mearns Parish . Self-published, handwritten document, 500 p. 1939.
- Glasgow City Council website
Coordinates: 55 ° 46 '57.4 " N , 4 ° 21' 20.1" W.