Holmwood House

My friend Nicole and I visited Holmwood house, in Cathcart , on Saturday. For those who don't know Holmwood house was designed by Alexander 'Greek' Thomson, and regarded by many as the finest example of his work.

The house is owned by the National trust, so if your a member you get in free, and is the only Thomson building which is opened to the public.

Saturday was a beautiful spring day in Glasgow, and myself and Nicole decided to do a walk from Muirhead train station, to Holmwood house, then through Linwood Park, and into Langside and finally through Queens park, before we finely had dinner at Little India on Kilmarnock Road. It was a most enjoyable day, and our favourite part, was definetly Holmwood house. It was the opening day of the season, so we were lucky as we hadn't checked. The house is really very impressive. It's a work in progress and they're still uncovering and restoring much of the house. The guides were great, very friendly and helpful.

The house also has a small gift shop, which incidently has no Macintosh goods for sale, and a tearoom.

The House is open from the 30th of March until the 31st of October, Thursday to Monday 12-5

From time to time they also have special events - plays etc

http://www.greekthomson.com/
http://www.ntseducation.org.uk/students/case-holmwood.html