Pollok House

Built between 1747 and 1752 Pollok House was the third home of the Maxwells since 1270. The central block is in neo-Palladian style, the current Sir John Maxwell known to have had discussions with the architect William Adam. The wings were sympathetically added by the architect Rowand Anderson at the beginning of this century. The late Sir John Stirling Maxwell (1866 - 1956) created the gardens at Pollok House and turned the house into a military hospital during the First World War. His daughter Mrs Anne Maxwell Macdonald gifted Pollok House and the Stirling Maxwell Collection, together with 360 acres of the Estate to be known as Pollok Park to the City of Glasgow in 1966. Pollok House has been opened to the public as a museum since 1967. In 1998 the management of Pollok House was formally transferred to the National Trust for Scotland.