Philpstoun
Garden City, "The Avenue".
coordinates:
55°58'40.49"N,
3°31'38.56"W
location: in the village
of Philipstoun, West Lothian
former parish: Kirkliston.
current
status:
fully intact and occupied
date
constructed: c.1910.
owner/builder: James Ross
& Co.
"There
are twelve houses built on the garden city principle. The
following particulars apply to a few of them containing
kitchen, parlour, bedroom, scullery, small pantry off kitchen,
bathroom, wc and coal cellar, and there is also a garden
: Dimensions: kitchen 15ft x 13.5ft, parlour 13.5ft x 11ft,
bedroom 13.5ft x 9ft, scullery 10ft x 8ft. The rental is
6/- per week inclusive of local and county rates. The Institute
at Philipstoun, which was built in harmony with the garden
city houses, is a very fine building, surrounded by trees
and shrubs and well arranged."
Theodore
K. Irvine, Report on the Housing Conditions in the Scottish
Shale Field, 1914.
The
Avenue, Philipstoun. October 2009.
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