Castlemilk House was a

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located in what is now the

Castlemilk Castlemilk ( gd, Caisteal Mheilc) is a district of Glasgow, Scotland. It lies to the far south of the city centre, adjacent to the Croftfoot and Simshill residential areas within the city to the north-west, the town of Rutherglen - neighbourho ...

district of

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. The house was the ancestral home of the Stirling-Stuart family and was built around the 15th-century Cassiltoun Tower during the 18th and 19th centuries. The house and Castlemilk Estate were purchased by

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in 1938, with the house serving as a children's home until it was closed in 1969 and demolished that year.

History

The lands of Cassiltoun of Carmunnock, located on high ground south of Glasgow between the hills of the

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and the burgh of

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near the

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, were acquired by the Stuarts of Castlemilk in

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(an estate near

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which still exists also featuring a grand mansion) in the 13th century. In the 16th century, they renamed the Cassiltoun estate Castlemilk.History
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from the 1660s to the 1790s. The ruins of Castlemilk House - geograph

In 1937 the 445 hectare (1100 acre) Estate of Castlemilk were acquired by

for housing. The estate was acquired under a

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as William Stirling-Stuart, the Laird of Castlemilk, had misgivings over the land being used for high-density housing so far from locations of industry. The outbreak of the

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delayed building work on the

housing scheme, which was constructed in the 1950s, and soon modern tenements surrounded the house's grounds on all sides.Castlemilk from Cathkin Braes (Glasgow City Archives, Department of Architectural and Civic Design, 1957)
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in 1939, and was used to accommodate evacuees from the city until the end of the war. It was then used as a

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from 1948 until the expense of maintaining the house forced it to close in January 1969. Castlemilk House was demolished by 1972;Stable place to be
Evening Times, 12 September 2008 a children's play area now occupies the site. In the 21st century the many green areas between the clusters of housing, including the remaining features of the rural estate, are managed as Castlemilk Park and Woodlands, an award-winning project aimed to benefit the community.

Castlemilk Stables

Other than a small

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featuring the landscaped fish pond and a stone bridge (1833,

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) which once formed the driveway to the mansion, and the entrance gateways which are sited to the north-east on the edge of

, the accompanying stables block (built 1794, designed by David Hamilton, also Category B listed) is the main surviving legacy of the grand estate. After being damaged by a fire in 1994 and left abandoned, it was restored in 2007 (with the project winning awards) and now contains the local housing offices, community facilities and a nursery.

References

*Sp Coll, Dougan Add. 73.

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, Special Collections.

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Castlemilk House
at Canmore (

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Painting of view from Cathkin Braes showing Castlemilk House and stables
by T. Williams, hosted at

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(work itself held at

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Video footage of the Stables, Bridge and Glen
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History

Castlemilk Stables

See also

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