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The first Scotstoun House, prior to the construction of worker's houses on the riverbank, had commanding views across the
Clyde and survived until the Lanarkshire & Dumbartonshire Railway Company was granted a compulsory purchase order over the
land to facilitate the construction of a line between Stobcross and Clydebank.
This 1870 Thomas Annan photograph shows the original Scotstoun House in its leafy environs. As Annan’s photograph details,
the House was set in open parkland against a background of trees. There is a boy (most probably an estate-hand) lying on
the grass in the foreground.
William Walkinshaw of Barrowfield had adorned the place “with curious orchards and gardens, stately avenues and large
enclosures sheltered with a great deal of beautiful planting; so that it has become one of the sweetest seats upon the
river Clyde in the shire” (Crawford, quoted in Old Country Houses of the Old Glasgow Gentry, LXXXVII, p.134).
The majority of this mansion house was demolished sometime during the 1890s (local historian, D.B Cunningham speculates
that this occurred in 1898) and a 'handsome new one on higher ground' (Imrie, ibid)
was built at the site now occupied by the Kingsway multistorey flats.
Imrie notes that the lodge of the original Scotstoun House remained well into the 20th Century close to the present
Duchall Place. The lodge of the new House stood some 100 yards west of this, on the north side of Dumbarton Road at
the foot of Larchfield Place.
 
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