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Additions and alterations to Arddarroch, Finnart

M239 Additions and alterations to Arddarroch, Finnart

Address: Arrochar Road, Finnart G84 OEY
Date: 1904–5
Client: Mr Brooman White
Authorship: Authorship category 1 (Mackintosh) (Mackintosh)

Photograph of E. porch at Arddarroch

1838
Arddarroch built for John McVicar to a design by William Burn. 1
1846–7
House enlarged by David Bryce. 2
1858
Acquired by John White, Glasgow chemical manufacturer. 3
1868
17 September: Marriage of John White and Amelia Susannah Brooman, widow. 4 Her only son by her previous marriage was Richard Charles Brooman, subsequently known as Richard Charles Brooman White.
1881
27 June: Death of John White 5
1903
6 Febuary: Death of Richard Charles Brooman's mother. 6
1904
January: Drawing by Mackintosh for new porch at Arddarroch. 7
7 April: Plans for 'additions ... and alterations' to Arddarroch approved by Western District Public Health Executive Committee of the County Council of Dunbarton. 8
10 October: Earliest payments for building work recorded in Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh job book. 9
1905
26 July: Payment to measurer in Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh job book suggests work completeted by this date. 10
1950s
Arddarroch estate transformed into an oil terminal; jetties and oil storage tanks constructed; house converted into flats. 11
1982
E. wing and N. end of main block demolished by this date. 12

Notes:

1: Frank Arneil Walker and Fiona Sinclair, Buildings of Scotland: Argyll and Bute, London: Penguin, 2000, p. 248.

2: Frank Arneil Walker and Fiona Sinclair, Buildings of Scotland: Argyll and Bute, London: Penguin, 2000, p. 248.

3: James MacLehose, Memoirs and Portraits of One Hundred Glasgow Men, Glasgow: James MacLehose & Sons, 1886, pp. 336–8.

4: Glasgow Herald, 19 September 1868, p. 5.

5: Morning Post, 30 June 1881, p. 7.

6: The Times, 7 February 1903, p. 9.

7: Hiroaki Kimura, 'Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Architectural Drawings', unpublished PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 1982, p. 50.

8: West Dunbartonshire Archives, Dumbarton Library: Western District Committee of the County Council of Dunbarton, proceedings from 15th December, 1903, to 16th December, 1904, DCC/2/1/1/1/7.

9: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh job book, GLAHA 53062, p. 44.

10: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh job book, GLAHA 53062, p. 45.

11: Margaret S. Dilke and A. A. Templeton, eds, The Third Statistical Account of Scotland: The County of Dunbarton, Glasgow: Collins, 1959, pp. 94–5; Helensburgh Library: unidentified newscutting dated March 1957.

12: Hiroaki Kimura, 'Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Architectural Drawings', unpublished PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 1982, p. 50.