The Briggait is an integral part of Glasgow’s architectural heritage. Once the city’s fish market of over a century, the building’s now the headquarters of Scotland’s largest studio providers – Wasps.
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The Tobacco Merchant’s House welcomes you to take a wee peek behind the scenes at the base of operations for Doors Open Days. Keep your eye out for Palladian architectural details and remnants of the past amongst our working offices. Will you spot the original iron safes, once used to store the merchant’s sizeable transactions? Visitors will be invited to travel back in time to Georgian Glasgow through guided tours of the building and surrounding Merchant City.
Doors Open Days is nationally coordinated by the Scottish Civic Trust, who have called this beautiful building home since 1995. Built by John Craig in 1775, Tobacco Merchant’s House is all that remains today of a row of ‘self-contained gentleman’s villas’. Its purchase, in 1782, by tobacco importer Robert Findlay earned the house its name and a place in Scotland’s history, a salutary reminder that slavery once fuelled Glasgow’s fortunes and was not viewed with the abhorrence it is today.
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Established in 1967 to help people connect to their built heritage and take a leading role in guiding its development, we successfully campaigned for the restoration of Edinburgh’s New Town. We were instrumental in saving New Lanark and in bringing Doors Open Days to the UK, enabling thousands of people to explore buildings and places that otherwise would be closed to them. Maintaining the Tobacco Merchant’s House exemplifies our approach to sustainable best practice in the built environment, reflected in our Management and Maintenance Plan, drawn up by conservation-accredited architects.
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The Briggait is an integral part of Glasgow’s architectural heritage. Once the city’s fish market of over a century, the building’s now the headquarters of Scotland’s largest studio providers – Wasps.
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Organised by Glasgow Building Preservation Trust, Glasgow Doors Open Days is part of a family of Doors Open Days events taking place across Scotland throughout September, coordinated nationally by the Scottish Civic Trust.
Glasgow Building Preservation Trust
Wellpark Enterprise Centre
120 Sydney Street, Glasgow
G31 1JF
www.gbpt.org
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