Basic Site Details Name: | Tenements, 1-18 Walmer Crescent | Town, district or village: | Cessnock | City or county: | Glasgow | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | | Grid ref: | | Notes: | Site feued from William Hamilton of Middleton. He specified the crescent plan in the feu plan. The belief that there was to have been a mirror image development on the south side of Paisley Road West is incorrect: the land there was owned by Moses Steven of Bellahouston.
A NW wing on Harley Street was planned but not built corresponding to that on Weymouth Street, now Cessnock Street. | Street AddressesThe following street addresses are associated with this building: | | Address | Main entrance? | Notes | | 1-5, Cessnock Street | Yes | | | Paisley Road West | Yes | | | 1-18, Walmer Crescent | Yes | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | c. 1857 | c. 1862 | | |
PeopleDesign and ConstructionThe 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 | | A & G Thomson | | A | c. 1857 | c. 1862 | | | Alexander Thomson | | A | c. 1857 | c. 1862 | | | George Thomson | | A | c. 1857 | c. 1862 | |
ClientsThe following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | Name | Notes | | Hood, John junior, house factor and insurance agent | He feued the ground and advertised the houses to let between 1858 and 1864. Most of these were subsequently sold but he still had 5 houses when he went bankrupt in 1869. |
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ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Gildard, Thomas | 1888 | Greek Thomson | | Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, xix (30 January 1888), pp191-209 | | | Hitchcock, Henry Russell | 1954 | Early Victorian Architecture in Britain | | Mondon and New Haven, 1954 | | | Law, Graham | 1954 | Greek Thomson | cxv, May 1954 | Architectural Review, May 1954 (Publication of 1960 Cambridge dissertation, original at NMRS) | | | Miller, Iain B | 1980 | Three Thomson Tenements | | Mackintosh School of Architecture Dissertation, in Glasgow School of Art Library | | | Stamp, Gavin | 1999 | Alexander Thomson: The Unknown Genius | | London: Lawrence King, in association with Glasgow 1999 | |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | | The Alexander Thomson Society Journal | 2016 | 1 | | Article by Brenda Lillicrap, pp6-10 |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes | | Glasgow City Archives | Frank Worsdall's Collection on Greek Thomson, including job list and photograph list | | | | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 33876 | |
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