Acre House :: More Info

Acre Plantation was an area of land sold by Robert Graham to pay his (gambling?) debts. Graham was the husband of Mary Hill, the local estate owner, who gave her name to Maryhill in Glasgow.

Acre became a council housing estate, grown up around this house built in about 1880 - no-one seems to know who the house was built for or by, though later on it was bought by Glasgow University and used for student accomodation, and some of the land used for construction of the University's observatory and marine technology research building. It fell out of use in 2004, was sold for about £500,000 in 2006, but is still lying empty, occasionally being set on fire by the locals.