Architecture Notes
Event ID 692916
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/692916
NT27SW 1.00 21068 74272
OWNER: Craigcrook Mortification, 19 Melville Street, Edinburgh.
ARCHITECTS: William Playfair - additions 1835
Thomas Leadbetter - billiard room & bedrooms 1891
David Roberts & John Jackson, painted library in imitation of dark oak to match some carvings that he (Lord Jeffrey) had purchased from Stirling Castle. Spring 1818.
EXTERNAL REFERENCES:
NAT. LIB. Sketches of Scottish Scenery, p.1 -2 drawings
PUB. LIT. Scots Magazine, April 1810 -1 engraving
N.M.R. (London) Bedford Lemere Register, 7 27730 -38 negatives
/3 11251 /6 -negatives
11261 /2 -negatives
N.L.S. MS 7348 Note on decoration (presumbably Playfair wing) by D.R. Hat. Work directed by Lord Jeffrey's wife.
PLANS:
E.U.L. Playfair College 1835 - 55 sheets.