Facilities
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Breakfast
7.00am – 10.00am (Monday – Friday)
8.00am – 10.00am (Saturday & Sunday) -
Lunch
12.00pm – 2.30pm (Monday – Saturday)
12.30pm – 4.00pm (Sunday) -
Afternoon Tea
1.00pm – 5.00pm (Everyday)
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Evening Dining
6.00pm – 9.00pm (Everyday)
- CHECK OUT - Check out is 11am on the day of departure. Should you require assistance with your luggage please dial ‘0’.
- WIFI - We provide complementary Wi-Fi to all guests, to access please connect to ‘Sherbrooke Guest WiFi’ the password required is ‘SHERBROOKE’.
- ROOM SERVICE - Room service is only available during breakfast, lunch and dinner service times - please dial extension 0. Please contact reception to advise when you wish your room service tray to be removed. Please note there is a tray charge of £5.00 applicable.
- ALARM CALLS - Should you require a wakeup call, please advise our reception team who will be able to assist.
- GUEST SUPPLIES - Further supplies of towels, blankets and pillows are available on request.
- TOILETRIES - There is a range of guest toiletries available from reception to purchase should you require.
- NEWSPAPERS - These can be ordered the night before with reception.
- SAFETY DEPOSITS - The Hotel cannot accept liability for the loss of valuables unless they are deposited with reception for safekeeping.
- BEDROOM KEYS - We kindly ask that when leaving the hotel that room keys are left with reception as we offer a 24-hour reception facility.
- TELEPHONE - Local, national and international calls can be made from your room by first dialling 9 to obtain an outside line, followed by the number you require. Calls cannot be made to the 0800 numbers or the BT operator. If you require these services, please call the hotel switchboard on extension 0.
Please note all guest bedrooms are non-smoking
IN THE CASE OF AN EMERGENCY PLEASE CONTACT RECEPTION BY DIALING ‘0’
OUR RESTAURANT OFFERS
Breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea & evening dining
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SERVICES SINCE 1896
Reserve a table at our restaurant
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SERVICES SINCE 1896
Magnificent Baronial Hotel Crafted in Rich Red Sandstone
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This Baronial villa was designed by the architects Robert Sandilands and John Thomson, eldest son of Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson. The building was proposed for the leading partner of one of the most important firms of builders and contractors in Victorian and Edwardian Glasgow, John Morrison of Morrison and Mason. This highly successful firm – Morrison & Mason- was established in 1876 and was led by business partners John Morrison & Thomas Mason.
John Morrison was born in 1836, the son of a builder in Dunoon in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Morrison came to Glasgow in 1870 hoping to share in the building boom which was then taking place, becoming involved in the construction of various tenement properties throughout the city. John Morrison had established his partnership with Thomas Mason (later Sir Thomas Mason of Craigiehall) by 1876 thereafter they traded as Morrison and Mason. The firm became the contractors for the Stock Exchange in Buchanan Street, the Coats Memorial Church in Paisley and the Cathcart Railway and Paisley Canal Line, as well as the Royal Princess’s Theatre (now the Citizens’ Theatre).
Morrison and Mason were the chief contractors for several important projects throughout the city of Glasgow, including the City Chambers in George Square, the General Post Office in George Square, the Clyde Port Authority in Robertson Street, as well as the Great Western Road Bridge and Ruchill Hospital. The artwork throughout the public areas of the hotel showcase examples of building which were constructed by Morrison and Mason, including the Glasgow Co-Operative Building which is located at 95 Morrison Street, named in honour of John Morrison.
In 1895 the contractor John Morrison commissioned architects Thomson and Sandilands to build this flamboyant Baronial villa as his own private residence named ‘Rhuadsgeir’. Construction was completed in 1896. It is a good example of the type of house built by the middle-class in the rather decadent late Victorian period and has a number of unusual features. The scale of the house, with its grand central staircase top lit by stained glass panels, gives an idea of Morrison’s wealth the 4-storey bartizaned tower is a prominent Southside landmark. The external Baronialism is, in some ways, an added romantic touch. Following the death of Morrison in 1919 the property was renamed ‘Sherbrooke House’. Knighted in 1909, Mason managed the firm after Morrison’s death and entered public life as a Councillor and served on the Boards of the Merchants House, Trades House and Clyde Trust.
The house became a hotel however during the Second World War the property was requisitioned by the Royal Navy and was used as a Radar training centre of Naval Officers, the HMS Marryat, referred to locally at the time as ‘the ship that never sailed’. Following the war in 1945 the property returned to a hotel thereafter namely The Sherbrooke Castle Hotel.
THE ARCHITECTS
Robert Douglas Sandilands (1854 – 1913)
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Robert Sandilands, the son of a wright and wood merchant from Lesmahagow, arrived in Glasgow in the 1870s to become a pupil of local architect Alexander Petrie. He stayed with Petrie from March 1875 to September 1880, during which time he was awarded a Certificate of Honour by the RIBA for measured drawings of Dunbland Cathedral (March 1880). To broaden his experience, he travelled to Paris where he trained at the École des Beaux Arts under Professor Gaudet for five years from October 1880. While in Paris he took the opportunity to travel on the Continent, sketching and absorbing local architectural style. On his return to Scotland, he entered a partnership with John Thomson from around 1888, the pair produced a wide range of high-quality work in and around Glasgow, most of it with Beaux Arts flavour. Sandilands was elected FRIBA, 1906 – proposed John James Burnet, T L Watson, John Keppie, C J MacLean ~ He was a member of the Merchant’s House, the Gorbals Benevolent Society and the Society of Deacons and Free Preses. He was also a Past Deacon of the Incorporation of Masons.
Telephone
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Local, national and international calls can be made from your room by first dialling 9 to obtain an outside line, followed by the number you require. Calls cannot be made to any 0800 numbers or the BT operator. If you require these services, please call the hotel switchboard on extension
To phone another room within the hotel dial ‘2’ then the room number you wish to contact
Local calls will be charged at 25p per minute International calls will be charged at 45p per minute
To reach the country of your choice, please dial 00 followed by the code:
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Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Belgium Brazil Canada Chile China Colombia Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Egypt EstoniaDial Code
54 374 61 43 32 55 1 56 86 57 385 420 45 20 372