Knockderry House has been a hotel since 1966, when it was converted from a private residence into a small guest house with only 7 bedrooms. Initially, it was run as a bed and breakfast offering the guest simple accommodation in a beautiful location.
However, Knockderry House was originally built as a summer escape for a wealthy Glaswegian family and the following information was gathered with the assistance of Mary Bylth - a decendant of that original family.
William Lieper (1836-1916) is a name famously associated with the architecture of Helensburgh and the surrounding area. He was known both as a domestic architect and a commercial architect. Some of his city work includes the Partick Burgh Halls, Glasgow Gas Light Building, the interior of Stirling Library, the Banqueting Hall of Glasgow City Chambers, Dowanhill Church and the Sun Life Building in Glasgow.
Leiper came to know quite a few of the big Glasgow industrialists of the 19th century during his commercial work. This offered him an introduction into domestic architecture and commissions to design and redesign some of the grand country houses and mansions of the Glasgow aristocracy and rich merchant
Leiper worked with a range of artists in the arts-and-crafts movement, and this work work is evident throughout Knockderry with delicate stained glass, woodwork, and paintings. The stained glass includes work by J. & W. Guthrie, who were influential in the Glasgow Boys movement founded in the late 1880s.
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