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Cheapside Street, GLASGOW, G76 0NS

This house in Cheapside Street is a miniature of the eighteenth century Polnoon Lodge http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1450255 and was once occupied by the Eaglesham Estate factor. The house has a round-headed doorway with pilastered and pedimented doorpiece and fanlight.

Cheapside Street looking towards the cross. The old Toll House http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1821577 can be seen on the right in the foreground. It was probably originally thatched.

An asymmetrical two-storey building with ground floor shop built in Cheapside Street. The building has a curvilinear wallhead chimney with 'Established 1835' in cast-iron letters.

An example of a curvilinear wallhead chimney at a two-storey building in Cheapside Street.

Eaglesham Cross looking along Cheapside Street. There was a post office, butcher and general store here at one time; the buildings being converted back to dwelling houses in the twentieth century. Alexander Johnston who owned Sunnyside Nursery had a grocery shop on the corner. Next door was the Post Office. A Bulloch & Co. had a grocery shop at 3 Cheapside Street. Further down the street and set-back from the line of buildings, is a house which is a miniature of Polnoon Lodge http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1450255 and was once occupied by the Eaglesham Estate factor. A cast-iron finger post http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1530094 can be seen at the corner of Cheapside Street and Gilmour Street.

A block of two-storey houses at Eaglesham Cross. There was a post office, butcher and general store here at one time; the buildings being converted back to dwelling houses in the twentieth century. Alexander Johnston who owned Sunnyside Nursery had a grocery shop on the corner. Next door was the Post Office. A Bulloch & Co. had a grocery shop at 3 Cheapside Street.

A fingerpost at the crossroads is a familiar sight and has been directing travellers to Glasgow, Kilmarnock, Strathaven and East Kilbride for many years. Old photographs show the fingerpost has been here for at least one hundred years although has been relocated from its original position at the other side of the crossroads. The post has a spherical boss finial; new fingers were cast and fitted to the post in recent years giving the sign a new lease of life. A similar fingerpost now long gone stood at the south-west corner of Newton Mearns cross. The Eaglesham fingerpost is probably the only remaining fingerpost in East Renfrewshire.

The Old Toll House is situated on the edge of the village in Cheapside Street on what was originally the Ayr to Edinburgh turnpike road.