Bloomhill

Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 3 Sep 2010

This is as much of the building as can be seen from the roadside. It is now used as a nursing home. For the history of this building and of its related structures, and for an architectural description, see the following listed building report: http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/designation/LB42904 (at Historic Environment Scotland). That report mentions an earlier building, which the present one replaced. Details of that earlier building are supplied by David Murray's "Old Cardross" (1888): "Andrew Edmonstone, a son of the Rev. John Edmonstone, minister of Cardross (1726-44*), was proprietor of a part of Ladeside and Gibshill (now Bloomhill), on which he built a house, described c.1778 as 'that most well finished house in Cardross lately built by Mr Edmonstone'. ... Mr Edmonstone died shortly afterward, and the house is advertised for sale in 1782 (Glas. Mercury, 17th Jan., 1782). It was removed by Mr Alexander Ferrier when he built Bloomhill. It did not stand on the same site as the present home, but in the adjoining field to the north, marked 914 on the Ordnance Survey 25 inch map, near the spot where the figures '914' are". Murray's description of the location of the earlier house is very specific, and allows it to be placed fairly precisely at Image, 100 metres ENE of the present house of Bloomhill. (An ambiguity in Murray's wording is probably what led the author of the listed building report to say that the earlier building was "situated to the N" of the present one. However, when Murray said that the earlier house stood "in the adjoining field to the north" of the present house, he presumably meant that the FIELD was to the north.) (*) Probably a misprint for "1726-74". Edmonstone was minister for 44 years; he died in 1771, but a successor was not inducted minister of the parish until 1774: see Image

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