Basic Site Details
| Name: | 619 houses for SSHA, New Farm Loch |
| Town, district or village: | Kilmarnock |
| City or county: | Ayrshire |
| Country: | Scotland |
| Parish: | |
| Status: | |
| Grid ref: | |
| Notes: | Cost £2.5m. 800 houses planned to be built in several phases. Phase I - 186 houses, phase II - 278 houses. Houses were intended to be allocated to incoming workers and workers of expanding local industries. 12 Baird Place in the New Farm Loch Estate was the 70,000th house to be built by the SSHA |
Building Type Classification
| The building is classified under the following categories: | |||
| Classification | Original classification? | Notes | |
 | Housing | ||
Events
| The following date-based events are associated with this building: | ||||
| From | To | Event type | Notes | |
| 1969 | Build/construction | ||
| 10 September 1969 | Opened | 12 Baird Place (70,000th SSHA house), scheduled to be opened by William Ross, Secretary of State for Scotland | |
People
Design 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 | |
| Alan William Graham Burnett | A | Early 1970s | |||
| Colin Walker | A | Early 1970s | |||
| George R M Kennedy & Partners | A | Early 1970s | |||
| George Raphael Michael Kennedy | A | Early 1970s | |||
| Thomas White | A | Early 1970s | |||
References
Bibliographic References
| The following books contain references to this building: | ||||||
| Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | |
| Glendinning, Miles and Muthesius, Stefan | 1994 | Tower Block: Modern Public Housing in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland | Yale University Press: New Haven and London | p245 | |
| RIBA | 1972 | RIBA Directory 1972 | |||
Periodical References
| The following periodicals contain references to this building: | |||||
| Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | |
| Building | 22 September 1969 | p34/84 | ||