Glasgow, Thornliebank, Rouken Glen Park, Thornliebank House

Also known as

Birkenshaw House; Birkinshaw House; Rouken Glen Mansion House

Classifications: House(19th Century)

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Location Details

Local authority: East Renfrewshire

Parish: Eastwood (Eastwood)

Former region: Strathclyde

Former district: Eastwood

Former county: Renfrewshire

Location accurate to the nearest 1 metre.

British National Grid (BNG) Coordinates: 254901, 658261

Ordnance Survey (OS) National Grid Reference: NS 54901 58261

Latitude: 55.79579Longitude: -4.31605

Datum: OSGB36 - NGR

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Further details

Site number: NS55NW 97

Unique identifier (UID): 197155

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Pastmap

Historic Environment Scotland

Historic photographic view of house.

19101241552

View from S of Thornliebank House.

Ian Hepburn

19501106301

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Archive referenceTitleCatalogue levelPreview
B 32036 Copy of postcard showing general view.Item Level
B 78161 View from S.Item Level
B 78162 PCPostcard view of Thornliebank house.Item Level
B 78162 Photographic copy of postcard view of house.Item Level
NA 1 NEWSCUTTING ALBUM NO 1: GLASGOW EVENING NEWS Hard-backed book (front missing) with linen cover, bound together through four eyelets with string. The frontispiece is titled 'The Encyclopedia of Glasgow', "Glasgow Evening News"; this is followed by two handwritten index pages. 300 numbered articles by 'J S C' dated 1935/1936. Listed by their numbers. Bought at Phillips booksale 10 March 1993 per Elizabeth Strong. (Lot 55)Batch Level
NA 1/213 No.213. View of house, including text. NEWSCUTTING ALBUM NO 1: GLASGOW EVENING NEWSItem Level
PC 119/8V/2 Page 8v/2 General view of front of house Mansion House, Rouken Glen, Glasgow, series no. 4007 POSTCARD ALBUM NO. 119: Miss Chrissie Bruce's albumItem Level
RAB 38/55 Photograph showng Thornliebank behind a screen of trees.Item Level
RE 1289 Historic photographic view of house.Item Level
RE 1290 Historic photographic view of house.Item Level

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Nearby listed buildings and other designations

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2 Notes

Category: Descriptive accounts

Event reference: 705704

NS55NW 97 54901 58261

The house is depicted on the Ordnance Survey Map of 1956, and has since been demolished.
Information from RCAHMS (TIC), September 2001.


Category: Descriptive accounts

Event reference: 831081

NMRS REFERENCE

See NMRS catalogue Strathclyde, Eastwood for typed reference.

Owner: Parks Department, Glasgow Corporation.
Demolished July 1965

See NMRS catalogue book Strathclyde Renfrew A-G for typed description of Birkenshaw House.


EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
Scottish National Portrait Gallery - Glasgow & Lanarkshire Illustrated - article & photograph
1910, p.15.

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References

Richardson P. (2017) Thornliebank House, Rouken Glen, Excavation Discovery Excav Scot New 17 2016 Cathedral Communications Limited, Wiltshire, England.. Page(s): 62