Basic Site Details Name: | Easterhouse Unit 7 | Town, district or village: | Rogerfield, Easterhouse | City or county: | Glasgow | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | | Grid ref: | | Notes: | This scheme was laid out immediately south of Unit 6, on either side of Lochdochart Road. It comprised 1053 dwellings (842 three-, 158 four-, 26 five- and 51 one-apartment flats in tenements), as well as a block of shops and single person's flats in Lentran Street and 16 aged person's flats in Denmilne/Lentran Streets. Some of the tenements were experimentally constructed in Wilson hollow precast blocks, and the remainder were in normal rendered brick. | 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 | | Lochdochart Road | | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 1958 | 1960 | Build/construction | 1053 dwellings built | | 1958 | 1959 | Build/construction | Block of shops and single person's flats built in Lentran Street and 16 aged person's flats built in Denmilne/Lentran Streets | | 1980 | | | 76 houses in Dunskaith Place / Street have already been demolished, and the remaining 424 Council houses in the South Rogerfield area (bounded by Easterhouse Road, Lochdochart Road and Dungeonhill Road) will be offered to a private developer to improve some, demolish others, and erecting new houses for sale. The field to the immediate south will also be offered to the developer for the construction of new houses (per Easterhouse Local Plan). | | 1985 | | | Rehabilitation of 2-10 Lochdochart Road, providing 30 houses comprising three apartment/two bedroom accommodation at a cost of £450,000. |
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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. |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Glasgow District Council | 1980 | Easterhouse Local Plan | | | p31 | | McKean, C (ed) | 1987 | Scottish Architecture in the 1980s | | RIAS | p26 |
Archive 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 | 1957/733, 1958/99, 1958/191 |
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