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Carstairs House

Carstairs House

Country house in Scotland

Carstairs House, also known as Monteith House, is a country house 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) south-west of Carstairs South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The house is protected as a category A listed building.[1]

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History

Carstairs House was designed by the Edinburgh architect William Burn and built for Henry Monteith MP between 1821 and 1823.[1][2] It then passed to his son Robert Monteith, and on his death to Joseph Monteith, who built a hydroelectric plant at nearby Jarviswood, and the Carstairs House Tramway to transport guests and family to and from Carstairs railway station.[3] It was purchased by Sir James King, the former Lord Provost of Glasgow in 1899.[4]

In 1924 Carstairs House was acquired the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Glasgow who had selected it as base for the St Charles' Certified Institution for "mentally defective Catholic children".[5] The children arrived there in 1925.[6] The institution, which was staffed by Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul,[7] closed in 1983.[7]

The house re-opened as a nursing home known as Monteith House (named after its original owner) in 1986 and, after a temporary closure between 2009 and 2011, re-opened again.[8]

References

  1. [1]
    Historic Environment Scotland. "Carstairs House (Category A Listed Building) (LB712)". Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  2. [2]
    "Monteith, Henry (1764-1848), of Westbank, Renfrew Road, Glasgow and Carstairs House, Lanark". History of Parliament. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
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    The Electrical engineer, Volume 3, 1889
  4. [4]
    "Sir James King". Glasgow West-end Addresses and their Occupants. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  5. [5]
    The Catholic who's who and yearbook, Volume 20. Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, Burns & Oates, 1 January 1927
  6. [6]
    The County of Lanark, George Thomson, Collins, 1960
  7. [7]
    "St. Charles' Certified Institution". Scottish Archive Network. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  8. [8]
    Carluke and Lanark Gazette, 15 July 2011
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