Basic Site Details | Name: | The Homesteads (Garden Suburb) | | Town, district or village: | Stirling | | City or county: | Stirlingshire | | Country: | Scotland | | Parish: | | | Status: | | | Grid ref: | | | Notes: | Stirling Homesteads Limited is a Co-partnership group. It differs from the ordinary Garden Suburb Scheme principally in this - that the group lease a farm along with the houses and manage this collectively, through a farm committee employing a farm manager, who is also a member of the group. The object of this is eventually to reduce the cost of the distribution of milk and dairy produce to a minimum and secure the benefits of this to the group. Also to stand as distributing agent for the produce taken off the allotments by the tenants, thus securing Co-operative marketing. The housing and farm buildings necessary have been erected to meet the Association's requirements by HM Office of Woods, and the ground has also been leased on a 31 years' lease to the Association by the same body. The experiment is just in its infancy, and it is too soon to say anything definite about its prospects, but many of the initial difficulties have been passed, and it is hoped to overcome successfully the few remaining ones. Out of a total area of 40 acres, 1.5 has been built on, 5 are being used as gardens, and 35 are being farmed. The estate is situated 1.5 miles from Stirling, and provision is made for an ultimate population of 200 persons and 40 homes. The maximum dividend is limited to 4 per cent, on loan and 5 per cent, on share capital. The enterprise dates from the close of 1910. The rents range from £10- 10s. to £26, rates 2s. 6d. in the £ extra. [Ewart G Culpin: The Garden City Movement Up-to-Date 1913 Page 43] | Building Type Classification| The building is classified under the following categories: | | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes |  | Housing scheme | | |
Events| The following date-based events are associated with this building: | | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 1909 | 1910 | | |
PeopleDesign and Construction| The following individuals or organisations have carried out design/construction work. Where architects or practices worked together, matching letters appear beside their names in the Partnership Group column. | | | Name | Role | Partnership Group | From | To | Notes | | James Chalmers | | | 1909 | 1910 | |
Clients| The following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | | Name | Notes | | Stirling Homesteads Limited | |
ReferencesBibliographic References| The following books contain references to this building: | | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Aitken, Peter, Cunningham, Cameron and McCutcheon, Bob | 1984 | The Homesteads: Stirling's Garden Suburb | | | | | Carruthers, Annette | 2013 | The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland: a history | | | pp320-321 | | Culpin, Ewart G | 1913 | The Garden City Movement Up-to-Date | | Town Planning Association | p43 | | Gifford, John and Walker, Frank Arneil | 2002 | Stirling and Central Scotland (The Buildings of Scotland) | | New Haven and London: Yale University Press | p753 | | Rosenburg, Lou | 2016 | Scotland's Homes fit for Heroes: Garden City Influences on the Development of Scottish Working Class Housing, 1900-1939 | | Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies: The Word Bank | pp130-131 |
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