IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Croftamie, GLASGOW, G63 0FF

Seen from the Endrick Viaduct. A Category B listed baronial mansion http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB49000 dating from 1884. It is also known as Dalnair Castle. It has recently been extensively renovated as a residential development of 10 luxury apartments.

Seen from the Endrick Viaduct. A Category B listed baronial mansion http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB49000 dating from 1884. It is also known as Dalnair Castle. It has recently been extensively renovated as a residential development of 10 luxury apartments.

Category B listed https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/apex/f?p=1505:300:::::VIEWTYPE,VIEWREF:designation,LB49000 19th century baronial mansion, also known as Dalnair Castle, recently converted to luxury apartments. The buildings in the foreground are Finnich Blair, a farm.

The lodge dates from about the same time as Image itself, but features some later additions.

See Image for a closer look, and for more information about the building. Both pictures were taken from Image; the present picture was taken under slightly better lighting conditions, and is intended to provide more context.

This building (built around 1884) was formerly used as a nursing home, and is seen here from the footpath and cycle route. Its architects were Clarke & Bell, whose architectural practice included George Bell I and II (father and son), and William Clarke. A later picture shows the building with more of its surroundings: Image My thanks to Elinor Combes, who tells me that "in 1972 Dalnair House was purchased by British Steel Corporation as a Management Training College for General Steels Division. The modern additional block was built in 1974/75 to house the college attendees, who had hitherto been accommodated in hotels from Bearsden to Drymen and had to be transported daily to and from Dalnair." Thanks also to Gray for bringing the following to my attention: Dalnair House is no longer in use as a nursing home: in February of 2006, an application to create 11 flats within the main building of Dalnair House, and to demolish a 1970s extension to that house and then create 15 flats in a new building on the same site, was given approval (with conditions); however, as of May 2011, no such work had taken place, and the building was in poor condition.

The photograph was taken from the outskirts of Croftamie. Dalnair Cottage is visible ahead. For a view in the opposite direction over the same bridge, see Image For a view from the bridge, see Image

The route follows the line of the former Forth and Clyde Junction Railway.