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Gilmour Crescent, GLASGOW, G76 0HU

Meeting of two main roads in Eaglesham.

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.

A variety of small shops set back off the main road. There is a defibrillator on the wall beside Eaglesham Pharmacy.

Off Glasgow Road.

In Eaglesham.

The main road north from the village. There is a row of houses set back on one side, and shops on the photographer's (east) side.

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.

A Scottish crown pillar box with double aperture beside the shops on Glasgow Road. Postbox numbers G76 1072 and G76 10720.