Architecture Notes

Event ID 833020

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Soane Museum Drawings - Adam Collection

Plans:

Measured and drawn by Fenton Wyness 1920-26 and stored in Aberdeen (see architectural catalogue) - complete survey

SRO

Estimate for addition to Clunie Castle and Kitchen Offices.

Cost #3338 11 2

[1790] GD 18/4965

SRO

Description of building and finishing an sddition to Clunie Castle, Aberdeen

[1790] GD 18/4965

1760 House of Cluny

Copy, Sir Archd Grant to John Gordon of Cluny at Fochabers; Monymusk, 24 July. On a survey by himself and "friend" who wanted to buy the estate of Cluny, and Gordon is asking far more than he would offer, "Especially as the House is such, tho' Grand for the Old Taste of Castles, as would not Do for those Accustomed to Genteel Modern Habitations and Manner of Life, to which he and his lady have been Long Accumstomed, but would cost more to pull Down than the materialls (sic) it could furnish it would be worth": urges a compromise. (Gordon refuses).

SRO/GD345/1166/3