Pollok House
Step into the magnificent mahogany and marble hallway at Pollok House and it's hard to believe that you're just a few miles from Glasgow city centre. Enjoy the superb collection of paintings, visit the servants' quarters and don't miss the award-winning Edwardian Kitchen Restaurant.
Visit Pollok House and capture the flavour of one of Scotland's grandest Edwardian country houses.
It is the ancestral home of the Maxwells of Pollok, who have lived on this site for 700 years. The present house, which replaced three earlier structures, was begun in 1747. It was extended from 1890 by Sir John Stirling Maxwell Bt, KT, a founder member of The National Trust for Scotland.
The house contains much original furniture as well as some of the finest Spanish paintings in Britain. A rare survival is the magnificent suite of servants quarters, which shows the scale of country house life around 1900. These contain the popular Edwardian Kitchen Restaurant, renowned for its lunch menu and home baking, and the shop in the Housekeepers Room.
At weekends, visitors can see a reconstruction of the way the house might have been run at the turn of the last century.
Pollok House, set amid formal and walled gardens, is at the heart of Pollok Country Park, with the Burrell Collection nearby - a wonderful combination for a day out.
Opening Hours
House, Shop, Restaurant and Garden: all year, daily 105 (closed 25/26 Dec & 1/2 Jan).
Pollok Country Park: all year, daily.
Contact
Property
Pollok Country Park
Glasgow
City of Glasgow
G43 1AT
Scotland
Tel: +44 (141) 6166410
Fax: +44 (141) 6166521
E-Mail: pollokhouse@nts.org.uk
