SHAWMUIR LODGE

Shawmuir Lodge sits near the entrance to Pollok Country Park. Built as a gatelodge for Pollok House, it had fallen into disuse and disrepair by the 1990s. GBPT became involved in 2015 and saw an opportunity to restore this little gem as housing and a fitting entrance to the park.

  • Building End User: Veterans Housing Scotland (formerly Scottish Garden Veterans’ Housing Association)
  • Completion Date: 2017
  • Project Cost: £335,000

History

Shawmuir Lodge dates from 1891 and designed by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson, and commissioned by Sir John Stirling-Maxwell. It was gifted along with the wider estate to the City of Glasgow by Sir John’s daughter, Anne Maxwell-MacDonald in the 1960’s. After deteriorating for many years, Strathclyde Building Preservation Trust (SBPT) carried out an options appraisal in 2011 and progressed a restoration project.

When SBPT closed in 2015, Glasgow Building Preservation Trust worked with Glasgow City Council and the National Trust for Scotland Little Houses Investment Scheme to identify a sustainable use for the building and we were introduced to The Scottish Garden Veterans’ Housing Association.

The Project

The Scottish Garden Veterans’ Housing Association (SVGCA) took a long lease on the building with Glasgow Building Preservation Trust as project managers. Restoration work included a new roof, windows and doors and repairs and repointing of external stonework. Inside the building, the original bedroom was repurposed as a shower room and many of the original features and fittings were repaired or reinstated. A new garden was created to the rear of the property and new paving to the front.

The first new resident in over 30 years moved into the building in 2017. It has been occupied by armed forces veterans since reopening.

People working on a roof on a building site, with blue fencing in the foreground.
Building repairs underway at Shawmuir Lodge.
The corner of a room with bare walls and stripped back plaster. A ladder leans against one wall.
The interior of Shawmuir Lodge undergoing restoration.
People in high visibility jackets working on a scaffold and looking at the exposed timber frame of a roof, with a chimney in the middle.
Constructing the new roof frame at Shawmuir Lodge.
Looking along a roof line undergoing repairs, with some new slates and blue plastic cover in the foreground.
The new roof going on at Shawmuir Lodge.
An oval-shaped stone detail in a wall with a saltire (diagonal cross) through it.
Detail of one of the stone saltires on the external wall of Shawmuir Lodge.
Exterior of a small stone-built house with a central door and two windows either side.
The completed Shawmuir Lodge in 2017.
A door and part of a corridor with walls painted pale green.
Restored interior of Shawmuir Lodge living room.
Inside of a room with white walls and wooden floor and a fireplace on the right.
Restored interior of Shawmuir Lodge living room.
A round window looking out towards trees and sky
Restored window in Shawmuir Lodge

Project Team

  • Consultants: Fiona Sinclair Architect, the Structural
  • Partnership (Structural Engineer), Gardiner & Theobald
  • (Principal Designer & Quantity Surveyor)
  • Glasgow Building
  • Preservation Trust (Project Organiser and fundraising)

Funders

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