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Tollcross Park Mansion House Apartments

16 March 2025

A-listed Victorian built Mansion House at Tollcross Park, Glasgow being fully let, following an extensive refurbishment by Spectrum Properties.

Glasgow’s Tollcross Park Mansion House, a restored Victorian masterpiece is now fully let

Address: Tollcross Park, 601-641 Tollcross Rd, Tollcross Rd, Glasgow G32 8TF, United Kingdom

Painstaking work by city’s Spectrum Properties has delivered 13 sumptuous rental apartments in A-listed building

The Mansion House at Tollcross Park, an A listed Victorian masterpiece built in 1849 is now fully let.

photo courtesy of Spectrum Properties

Tollcross Park Mansion House by Spectrum Properties

A jewel of the East End of Glasgow, which blazed with candlelight and rang to the music of waltzes and polkas in its 19th Century heyday, Tollcross House has undergone a detailed and sympathetic refurbishment which has returned the voices and laughter of families to it once again.

With 13 spectacular apartments, some of palatial size, some with floor-to-ceiling shuttered windows and all retaining the characteristics, class and craftsmanship of the A-listed Scottish baronial masterpiece, Tollcross House is now home to delighted rental tenants.

The restoration of the 176-year-old centrepiece of 80 undulating acres of parkland at Tollcross has been spoken of in the same terms as the transformation of the Great Western Road mansion of art collector and Glasgow benefactor Sir William Burrell, which was effected by the same company, Spectrum Properties.

Bill Roddie, Managing Director of family-owned Spectrum Properties, said: “This magnificent building is of massive historical importance to the East End – it is part of its heritage – and the work carried out had to be commensurate with its grandeur.

“Our highly skilled team has, in effect, paid its respects to the building while refurbishing windows and doors, replacing sills and seals, rewiring, installing energy efficiency measures, bringing the roof up to scratch and repointing the entire building.

“The tenants of the new flats have the whole park on their doorstep, but importantly they also have a private garden to the back and the side of the building and a barbecue area for summer nights.”

photo courtesy of Spectrum Properties

The architecturally stunning development is another sign of the company’s commitment to the area, which has already contributed hugely to the preservation and enhancement of some of the East End’s most outstanding buildings. Remarkably, the project was completed with no grant funding, or any requests being made for such funding.

Spectrum Properties, which operates all over Glasgow, Edinburgh and Stirlingshire, spent more than £1 million on the conversion of the Mansion House, which was built by the architect David Bryce for the mine-owning Dunlop family and features classic crow-stepped gables, corbelled turrets and pointed roofs.

The 13 new homes have ultra-fast broadband and are served by a private road sweeping through the park, with its mature trees, dramatic ravine, internationally-famous Rose Garden and the classical Winter Gardens – which are just a short stroll away and which have themselves undergone a £1 million+ restoration.

Spectrum Properties has been instrumental in saving much of Glasgow’s Victorian architectural and industrial heritage and has invested tens of millions of pounds in creatively repurposing properties of recognised architectural merit.

Although the company has moved into residential development over the last 10 years, its primary focus remains commercial property, owning some 700 commercial properties across the city, comprising 70% of its group holdings.

Spectrum Properties directly employs 75 people and the same number of sub-contractors. It is actively recruiting to cope with rapid expansion. Established by Mr Roddie in 1988, the company now has a portfolio valuation of £60 million and a turnover in excess of £5 million.

Spectrum Properties, Strathclyde Business Centre, 120 Carstairs Street, Glasgow G40 4JD. W: www.spectrumproperties.co.uk.

• Spectrum Properties is a family-run business providing high quality business centre space, industrial workshops and units, warehousing and manufacturing facilities and secure open yard storage along with business support services in and around Glasgow.

• It has also been at the forefront of the city’s built environment preservation, creating new uses for former municipally owned properties such as Hillhead High School in the West End, Shakespeare Street school in North Kelvinside, Shettleston Baths and Sir William Burrell’s former home in Great Western Road in Glasgow.

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