[2] Deeds show that the property/land was sold by James Burns (Scottish shipowner) to John Blackwood (bleacher) on 5 May 1838.

[3] In 1852 the engineer John Frederick Bateman was consulted by Glasgow Council in regard to its water supply.

It is hypothesised by art researcher Stephen Scheding in his book "The National Picture" that Alexander McNaughtan may have been the last owner of Benjamin Duterrau's lost masterpiece, a large scale version of "The Conciliation".

[9][10] After the death of the final McNaughtan daughter in 1904 the house passed into the ownership of their nieces Agnes and Margaret Taylor.

[11] In 1975 he sold the property to Colin and Rosemary Harvey who opened the Heatherbank Museum of Social Work on the premises.