Kenneth Dalgleish was born in Nottinghamshire, England in 1887 and was articled to Richard H. Hill from 1905 to 1908. He also attended the Architectural Association Schools in London from 1905 to 1909 and the L.C.C. School of Building in London. From 1909 he worked as an assistant to John Gilbert Pitney Meaden (1878-1953).
Dalgleish qualified as an architect in 1912 and subsequently established an architectural practice in London. From 1919 to 1923 he was District architect to Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. From c.1935 to c.1964 he was in partnership with Roger Kendall Pullen (1909-1987) in the London-based firm Dalgleish & Pullen.
Dalgleish was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1912 and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1931. His address was given as 9 Claremont Road, Folkestone, Kent in 1912; Ingram House, 165 Fenchurch Street, London in 1912 and 1914; 36 Queen's Road, Wimbledon, London in 1914; 4, Bishop's Court, Bishop's Avenue, East Finchley, London in 1922; and Temple Chambers, Temple Avenue, Victoria Embankment, London in 1923 and 1939. He died in Sidcup, Kent in 1964.
Architectural projects by Dalgleish in partnership with Pullen included a house near Lyme Regis, Dorset (1935) for Miss Carver; houses on the Ham Manor Estate, near Angmering (c.1936); a house in Chapel Brampton, Northamptonshire (1936) for Mrs. Poyser; Barnet & District Gas Showrooms in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire (1937); a building for Our Dumb Friends' League in Camden Town, London (1937); Marine Court in St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex (1938); the White House in Marsworth, Tring, Hertfordshire (1938); alterations and additions to Greys Green in Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire (1939); Roadmender Boys' Club in Northampton, Northamptonshire (1939); a cocktail bar in the Grand Hotel in Morecambe, Lancashire (1949); London Road flats in Bromley, London (1950) for Bromley Borough Council; Carew Road flats in Bromley, London (1951) for Bromley Borough Council; Royal Goat Hotel in Beddgelert, designed (1951-1955); Gray's Carpet Showrooms in Mayfair, London (1952); Chiswick Polytechnic, London (1953); Dernier and Hamlyn lighting showroom in London (1955); alterations to Northland Cottage in Tetbury (1955); Greenways in Beddgelert (1957); Rowland Brown Hall, St Helen's School in Northwood, Middlesex (1957-1966); Midland Hotel in Birmingham (1958); a shop for Henry Barker Smart & Brown Ltd. in Nottingham (1958); Hotel Russell in Russell Square, London (1959); Maple's furniture store, Tottenham Court Road, London (1960); and a house at Red Lion site in Marsworth, Tring, Hertfordshire (1965).
Prior to forming the Dalgleish & Pullen partnership Dalgleish designed the Woodman Public House in Blackfen Road, Blackfen, Kent in c.1931.
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