Carstairs House

Country house in Scotland

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TypeCountry house

Coordinates55°40′51″N 3°41′04″W / 55.680904°N 3.684535°W / 55.680904; -3.684535

Built1821 - 1823

Current useNursing home

Carstairs House
Carstairs House, now Monteith House Nursing Home
Type	Country house
Coordinates	55°40′51″N 3°41′04″W / 55.680904°N 3.684535°W / 55.680904; -3.684535
Built	1821 - 1823
Current use	Nursing home
Architect	William Burn
Architectural style	"Tudor" gothic

Listed Building – Category A
Designated	12 January 1971
Reference no.	LB712


Location in South Lanarkshire

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]

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 2 Historic Environment Scotland. "Carstairs House (Category A Listed Building LB712)". Retrieved 22 March 2019.
↑ "Monteith, Henry (1764-1848), of Westbank, Renfrew Road, Glasgow and Carstairs House, Lanark". History of Parliament. Archived from the original on 11 December 2014. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
↑ The Electrical engineer, Volume 3, 1889
↑ "Sir James King". Glasgow West-end Addresses and their Occupants. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
↑ The Catholic who's who and yearbook, Volume 20. Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, Burns & Oates, 1 January 1927
↑ The County of Lanark, George Thomson, Collins, 1960
1 2 "St. Charles' Certified Institution". Scottish Archive Network. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
↑ Carluke and Lanark Gazette, 15 July 2011

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