Basic Site Details Name: | Easterhouse Development (Easterhouse) | Town, district or village: | Lochwood, Easterhouse | City or county: | Glasgow | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | | Grid ref: | | Notes: | 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. | Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes | | Housing scheme | | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 18 June 1954 * | | Scheme accepted | Corporation accepts layout plans of: 642 three-, 208 four-, and 64 five-apartment houses; and 950 houses in flats | | 11 October 1957 | | Build/construction | 'Glasgow Corporation Housing Committee allocated ..contract for houses to direct labour department, one for 1,053 houses at Easterhouse, cost ₤1,805,561.' per Builder p655 | | 22 November 1957 | | Scheme accepted | 'Dean of Guild Court approved plans for 1,361 houses in the city. Corporation to build 1,053 houses at Easterhouse....Corporation houses will be of three, four or five apartments in tenement buildings' per Builder p940 | | 15 August 1958 | | Scheme accepted | 'The [Housing] Committee has also authorised construction of further houses at Lochwood, Easterhouse.' per Builder p290 | | 25 September 1959 | | Proposed | 504 houses (432 three-apt. and 72 four-apt. units) per Builder p324 |
* earliest date known from documented sources.
PeopleDesign and Construction* earliest date known from documented sources.
Related Buildings, Structures and DesignsChild StructuresThis structure or site has the following component or child structures (click on an item to view details): | | Building Name | Notes | | Easterhouse Unit 1 | 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. | | Easterhouse Unit 2 | This scheme was laid out east of Wellhouse Road. It comprised 416 dwellings (336 three- and 60 four-apartment tenement flats and 20 five-apartment terraced houses) plus four shops and six single person's flats in Warhie Road. See separate record for nursery school. | | Easterhouse Unit 3 | This scheme was built on a detached site north of Blairtummock Road, immediately beside an extensive industrial estate. It comprised 588 dwellings (468 three- and 120 four-apartment tenement flats), as well as a group of six shops and eight single person's flats in Lonmay Road. See separate record for school. | | Easterhouse Unit 4 | This scheme was laid out to the south of Westerhouse Road and West of Easterhouse Road. It comprised 1305 dwellings in largely three-storey tenement blocks (990 three-, 264 four-, and 24 five-apartment flats). See separate records for nursery school, primary school, and secondary school. | | Easterhouse Unit 5 | This scheme was laid out along curving roads to the northeast of Provanhall (Auchinlea) Road, which was realigned and widened. It comprised 978 tenement dwellings (in mostly three- and four-apartment flats), and a block of shops and single person's flats in Conisborough Road. See separate records for schools and churches. | | Easterhouse Unit 6 | This scheme was laid out on an extensive area on either side of Lochend Road and Lochdochart Road. It comprised 1785 dwellings (1428 three-, 297 four-and 27 five-apartment flats in tenement blocks) plus a block of shops and single person's flats. See separate records for schools, community centre, and church. | | Easterhouse Unit 7 | 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. | | Easterhouse Unit 8 | This scheme was laid out between Wellhouse 2 and the canal. It comprised 504 houses in three-storey tenement blocks and 45 single person's flats in two blocks. |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Glendinning, Miles | 1997 | Rebuilding Scotland: The Postwar Vision, 1945-75 | | Tuckwell Press Ltd | p63, p174 Castlemilk |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | | Builder | 18 June 1954 | | | p1091 | | Builder | 11 October 1957 | | | p655 | | Builder | 22 November 1957 | | | p940 | | Builder | 15 August 1958 | | | 'Glasgow Scheme Approved' p290 | | Builder | 25 September 1959 | | | p324 |
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