The Sunlight Cottages
Kelvingrove Park Heritage Trail 5-8

 

Kelvingrove Park Heritage Trail includes 35 sites of interest.  If you visit the Kelvingrove Park and use the map available to download here it will take you approximately 1 hour 30 minutes to follow the Heritage trail from Kelvingrove Museum to The Kelvinway Bridge.
5. The Snowbridge Original Partick Bridge (1800)

The Snowbridge Original Partick Bridge  The most historic bridge in the Park, formerly carrying the Dumbarton Road before the current Partick Bridge was built in 1876-78.

The Snowbridge is a triple-arched, droved ashlar masonry bridge with pilasters and stone cut waters. An additional arch allows passage of Bunhouse Mill lade. For many years three sets of gates on the South-West side opened out to allow snow to be swept in to the Kelvin.
Category ‘B’ listed


6. The Red Sandstone Piers and Iron Gateway at Dumbarton Road Entrance to the Park (1914)

The Red Sandstone Piers and Iron Gateway at Dumbarton Road Entrance to the Park  The Dumbarton Road entrance to Kelvingrove offers unpretentious red sandstone walling with squat, stonecapped circular gate-piers and a tidy wrought-iron gateway. The gateway appears to have been widened to accommodate the present gates in 1914. Forms part of the ensemble with the ‘shared’ ledge to the University and Infirmary.
Not Listed


7. The Sunlight Cottages (1901)

The Sunlight Cottages  A little-altered pair of red brick, 2-storey, multi-gabled cottages in Cheshire vernacular style erected for the 1901 International Exhibition.

The buildings are representative of early 20th century philanthropic model housing erected by Lever Brothers Limited for their workers at Port Sunlight, near Liverpool.
These idyllic cottages were designed, like most of the Exhibition, by the architect James Miller and gifted to the Town Council by the Company following the Exhibition’s closure.
Category ‘B’ Listed


8. The Chalybeate Spring Well (1800)

The Chalybeate Spring Well  The remains of a wall-mounted drinking fountain with castiron orifice set in a rubble-walled recess off the riverside footpath and bordered by a low iron rail. No longer functional and believed to have been diverted during operations to build the underground railway. Formerly associated with Gilmorehill Hydropathic (which for a time occupied Gilmorehill House).

The spring is of considerable historical and archaeological interest as one of the few surviving elements which pre-date the Park.
It was incorporated by Paxton into the Park layout as an ornamental feature or ‘incident’ to be used and enjoyed by Park visitors and the Council is currently investigating whether the spring can be made operational once more.
Not Listed

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