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Polnoon Mews, Polnoon Street, GLASGOW, G76 0BE

Although a modern development, these houses in Polnoon Mews have features in a vernacular style such as wallhead dormers and sash-and-case windows. It is important to note that these aren't vernacular buildings which are by definition smaller traditional buildings which use local materials and building methods.

Consoled and corniced doorpiece with plain panelled door with fanlight to an otherwise plain fronted two-storey house in Polnoon Street.

Polnoon Lodge was originally built as a hunting lodge in the early eighteenth century by Alexander, ninth Earl of Eglinton. Following the sale of the Eaglesham Estate in 1844 to Allan and James Gilmour, the lodge was used as the estate office for a short period of time. Later on Allan Gilmour's mother and sisters occupied the lodge for a time into the 1860s before being let. By the 1920s the lodge operated as a temperance hotel and later on as a boarding house. An annexe was used as a meeting room for local groups and societies. The lodge lay empty by the 1960s and was renovated by Renfrew County Council as housing for the elderly. The restoration work won a Civic Trust Award in 1971. One of the houses in Cheapside Street http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1484249 is a miniature of the lodge http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1643989 and was once occupied by the Eaglesham Estate factor. The Earls had another hunting lodge a few miles away at Cleughearn in East Kilbride Parish. Discover more about Polnoon Lodge and the history of Eaglesham by visiting the Geograph article, Eaglesham The Story of a Planned Village http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/Eaglesham-The-Story-of-a-Planned-Village.

Looking up Polnoon Street from Gilmour Street.

This two-storey house in Polnoon Street was built in 1774 and tacked to James Tassie, merchant. The building comprises a number of different vernacular features such as a gambral roof; round-topped dormers; scrolled skewputs; three windowed projected elevation; pedimented nepus gable; rusticated quoins; pilastered doorpiece with overdoor and volute keyblocks above window openings. It has a five bay symmetrical façade. The farmhouse at Wester Kitochside Farm http://www.nts.org.uk/Property/41/ built in 1783 by Hendry Granger and Tom Lochore for John Reid has many similar vernacular features.

Looking down Polnoon Street towards Gilmour Street.

Mayfield is plain fronted but has rusticated quoins and simple timber pilastered and pedimented doorpiece with plain panelled door.

The Eaglesham Bi-centenary memorial stone was unveiled by the Marquis of Bute at a ceremony held on 7th May 1972 in acknowledgement of the work of Sheriff James Young and Mr Geoffrey Rhodes. The inscription on the plaque reads 'This plaque was erected by Renfrew County Council and Eaglesham Restoration Joint Committee in acknowledgement of the work of Sheriff J.B.M. Young and Mr G.M. Rhodes towards the preservation of Eaglesham.' The unveiling ceremony was performed on the tercentenary of the granting of the Royal Charter to hold a weekly market and yearly fair. Click on this http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1484265 to see the location of the Bi-centenary stone.