Househillwood
Location and history
Househillwood is close to the centre of the Pollok district and is often considered to be part of 'Greater Pollok' (a ward of Glasgow City Council), although the construction of Househillwood in the 1930s (about 800 homes) predates the Pollok scheme's main period of building after World War II. It was also established prior to the adjoining neighbourhoods to the south, Priesthill and Craigbank (the latter generally considered part of Nitshill). Maps of these areas show a continuation of streets and a similar building style, namely cottage flats and terraced houses, but at ground level there are noticeable differences between the designs of the different decades, the final streets belonging to Househillwood being Brock Road and Hartstone Road. The layout of the streets is fairly symmetrical, with the main Peat Road running through the centre of the neighbourhood. The only modern housing, developed in 2016, is built on the site of a school.
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It is flanked to the west by Househill Park, which features a play area and small rose garden with the Levern Water flowing through it, and was the location of Hous'hill, the local country house (dating from the early 1800s and once home to team room entrepreneur Catherine Cranston) until its demolition following a fire, shortly before the building of the housing estate – the rest of the surrounding land in the area was open woodland or farmers' fields. To the east is the Silverburn Centre (a large 'out of town' retail, dining and cinema complex) and the Brock Burn; the two waters converge a short distance to the north.
There are few amenities in Househillwood itself, with the closest churches and schools located in Priesthill and Craigbank along with the local housing office, and others (health centre, library, sports centre, bus station) at the Pollok civic realm immediately to the north adjacent to Silverburn. The closest railway stations are Nitshill and Priesthill & Darnley, both located to the south on the Glasgow South Western Line.
Actor Alex Norton and newspaper columnist Tom Shields (The Herald 'Diary') were brought up in the area.
References
- ^ Househillwood Housing (Glasgow City Archives, Department of Architectural and Civic Design, 1950), The Glasgow Story
- ^ Mast seek planning for 37 Pollok homes, Urban Realm, 13 November 2015
- ^ OS Six-inch 1st edition, 1843–1882, Explore georeferenced maps (National Library of Scotland)
- ^ Househill, Old Country Houses of the Old Glasgow Gentry (1878)
- ^ Househill (Hous'hill) (Glasgow University Library, Special Collections, Dougan Collection, 1870), The Glasgow Story
- ^ Scotland's Biggest Shopping Centre Opens Its Doors, Daily Record, 25 October 2007
- ^ Silverburn extension completes, Urban Realm, 4 January 2015
- ^ Mall shoppers dump 200 trolleys in burn, Evening Times, 16 June 2014
- ^ Priesthill URC grills Gardeners’ Question Time about sprouts, United Reformed Church, 13 December 2014
- ^ Home, St Robert Bellarmine Church
- ^ Our History Archived 25 September 2020 at the Wayback Machine, St Christopher's, Priesthill, & Nitshill Parish church
- ^ New £21million school campus for Glasgow, Evening Times, 8 September 2015
- ^ Our Community: Primary Schools, Hillpark Secondary School
- ^ Learning Community, St Paul's High School, Glasgow
- ^ Location of Houses, Rosehill Housing Co-operative
- ^ Pollok civic realm opens, Urban Realm, 20 May 2009
- ^ Library users' anger as wi-fi is removed, Evening Times, 5 August 2013
- ^ Pollok Leisure Pool (Mitchell Library, Glasgow Collection, Bulletin Photographs, 1986), The Glasgow Story
- ^ Glasgow Club Pollok, Glasgow Life
- ^ Shields on Shields, Daily Record, 19 August 2002 (via The Free Library)
External links
- Priesthill and Househillwood Thriving Place, Glasgow Community Planning Partnership, October 2017
- Priesthill and Househillwood, Understanding Glasgow, 2012