Miss Cranston Willow Tea Rooms

The willow tea rooms are now recognised as a masterpiece of mackintosh design but when they opened in 1903 they were branded with miss cranston s name and few knew much about the designer.

Miss cranston willow tea rooms.

The tea rooms are modelled on kate cranston s ingram street tea rooms from the early 1900s recreating the fabulous interiors from the white dining room and the chinese blue room. The name sauchiehall is derived from saugh the scots word for a willow. This was the beginning of a long partnership between them. Welcome back to the willow tea rooms.

Mackintosh at the willow operates as a not for profit social enterprise creating training learning employment and other opportunities and support for young people and communities. The willow tearooms opened at 217 sauchiehall in october 1903. Whether you re treating yourself to one of our decadent champagne afternoon teas or a simple pot of tea and home baked scone we re ready to serve you safely at the tearooms. The street and surrounding area are part of the new town of blythswood created largely by william harley of blythswood square in the early 1800s.

Now that the trust have succeeded in restoring the building to its former glory it continues to focus its effort on the advancement of the arts heritage and culture by. Catherine cranston 27 may 1849 18 april 1934 widely known as kate cranston or miss cranston was a leading figure in the development of tea rooms she is nowadays chiefly remembered as a major patron of charles rennie mackintosh and margaret macdonald in glasgow scotland the name of miss cranston s tea rooms lives on in reminiscences of glasgow in its heyday. Inspired by the works of charles rennie mackintosh the willow tea rooms at 97 buchanan street is the place to go when out and about in the city centre. We are reopened for breakfast lunch afternoon tea and our famous home baking seven days a week.

Our tea rooms are open daily monday to saturday 9am to 5pm and sundays 10am 5pm. Charles rennie mackintosh had been born in glasgow in 1868 and when kate cranston first commissioned him to design the wall murals of her buchanan tearooms he was only 28. Located at 215 217 sauchiehall street the original willow tearooms building has undergone an extensive restoration in a bid to return the building to its former glory of when it originally opened in 1903. The location selected by miss cranston for the new tearooms was a four storey former warehouse building on a narrow infill urban site on the south side of sauchiehall street.