| Carstairs House | |
| Type: | Country house |
| Coordinates: | 55.6809°N -3.6845°W |
| Built: | 1821 - 1823 |
| Architect: | William Burn |
| Architecture: | "Tudor" gothic |
| Current Use: | Nursing home |
| Designation1: | category a listed building |
| Designation1 Date: | 12 January 1971 |
Carstairs House, also known as Monteith House, is a country house south-west of Carstairs South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The house is protected as a category A listed building.
Carstairs House was designed by the Edinburgh architect William Burn and built for Henry Monteith MP between 1821 and 1823.[1] It then passed to his son Robert Monteith, and on his death to Joseph Monteith, who built a hydroelectric plant at nearby Jarviswood, and the Carstairs House Tramway to transport guests and family to and from Carstairs railway station.[2] It was purchased by Sir James King, the former Lord Provost of Glasgow in 1899.[3]
In 1924 Carstairs House was acquired the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Glasgow who had selected it as base for the St Charles' Certified Institution for "mentally defective Catholic children".[4] The children arrived there in 1925.[5] The institution, which was staffed by Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul,[6] closed in 1983.[6]
The house re-opened as a nursing home known as Monteith House (named after its original owner) in 1986 and, after a temporary closure between 2009 and 2011, re-opened again.[7]