Basic Site Details Name: | Easterhouse Unit 1 | Town, district or village: | Wellhouse, Easterhouse | City or county: | Glasgow | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | | Grid ref: | | Notes: | This scheme was laid out on a triangle of land bounded by Edinburgh Road, Bartiebeith Road, and Wellhouse Road. It comprised 900 houses mostly in the form of three-apartment three-storey tenements, with some cottages, terraced houses, and four/five-apartment tenements north of Torrans Road. A block of five shops and eight single person's flats was also built in Newhills Road. See separate records for primary school, two nursery schools, and church. | Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes | | Housing | | |
Street AddressesThe following street addresses are associated with this building: | | Address | Main entrance? | Notes | | Bartiebeith Road | | South of Bartiebeith Road | | Edinburgh Road | | North of Edinburgh Road | | Langbar Crescent | | | | Newhills Road | | | | Wellhouse Crescent | | | | Wellhouse Road | | West of Wellhouse Road |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | October 1955 | | Plans dated | | | 1956 | 1957 | Build/construction | 900 dwellings built | | 1957 | 1958 | Build/construction | Block of shops and small flats built in Newhills Road |
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Related Buildings, Structures and DesignsParent Structure and SiteThis structure is related to the following parent structure or site (click the item to view details): | | Building name | Notes | | Easterhouse Development (Easterhouse) | The housing programme for Easterhouse was divided into seven units. The first three were in the southern half of the area, south of the Monkland Canal, and were built between 1956-8. The other four units were built around the planned township centre, north of the canal. Housing areas were basically tenements on garden city layouts, but with more effort to segregate residential streets from main ones. Easterhouse pioneered conservateive timber-windowed tenement types. |
ReferencesArchive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes | | Strathclyde Regional Archives | Glasgow Dean of Guild | GCA DG 1955/670, 1956/686 | |
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