Kerelaw House

The house was built in the neo-Palladian style[2] in 1787 by Lieut.-Col. Alexander Hamilton (a relative of one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of the same name).

[5] Captain Logan Neely (Nephew of Hamiltion) inherited and was forced to sell the mansion house to Gavin Fullarton, Esq., a retired West Indies merchant, in 1838 along with the rest of the Kerelaw Estate including Kerelaw Castle.

[6] Campbell and his family (including his son Kenneth Campbell VC) were the last family to live at Kerelaw; in 1969 the house was bought by Glasgow Corporation Education Department and Kerelaw Residential School was opened in its grounds in 1970.

[6] Built in the Adam style, Kerelaw House was a tall, three-storey ashlar building of five bays with a wide, slightly projecting central bay; its Doric entrance porch has above it the typical Adam feature of a Serlian window set within a lightly recessed blind arch.

[3] A long driveway leads up to the house from the nearby road, and is still in existence, having latterly been used as an entrance to Kerelaw Residential School.

Coat of Arms of the Hamiltons of Grange. [ 1 ]
Kerelaw castle ruins in 1890 with the Laburnum tree reputed to have been sent by David Livingstone from Africa. [ 4 ]