RCAHMS: Exploring Scotland's Places - Dumfries and Galloway, 1986

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Date 1986

Event ID 1047306

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Exploring Scotland's Heritage

Some 90 detailed site descriptions from this publication were entered into Canmore in 2017. The book was a collaboration between the author Geoffrey Stell (RCAHMS), the series editor Dr Anna Ritchie, and RCAHMS staff, and aimed to provide a thorough introduction to a wide range of monuments (dating from prehistoric to recent times) in a region of Scotland.

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1017397	DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNTS	PUBLICATION ACCOUNT	On the terrace above this farmstead there is a long rectangular building with walls of clay and a corrugated iron roof (replacing thatch); inside, it is divided into two compartments and has five cruck trusses. The clay walls, which have been patched with masonry and brick, are set on stone footings and have been built in thin courses between layers of straw. The basic form of the oak crucks is similar to that of the cottage at Torthorwald (no. 18), but they are bigger and better finished. They consist of single blades joined by a collar-beam and tenoned into a stout capping member at the apex; the northernmost pair of blades has been sawn from the same trunk to form complementary half-tree sections. [...]	1986
1017399	DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNTS	PUBLICATION ACCOUNT	Drawn to Shambellie by the collection of historic gowns and costumes, visitors will fmd that the house has much interest in its own right. Built in 1856-7 for William Stewart to the design of David Bryce, it is a small, virtually unaltered Victorian mansion of Scottish Baronial style. In its sylvan setting, Shambellie appears to be a typically solid and comfortable house suited to a Victorian landed gentleman of moderate means. It stands its ground as naturally as any minor Scottish laird's house of the late 16th or 17th century, whose details it imitates. [...]	1986
1017400	DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNTS	PUBLICATION ACCOUNT	The title of palace, though only recently conferred, well suits this stately neo-Classical mansion. Designed and built between 1759 and 1765, it demonstrates tangibly the rise in the landed fortunes of the Murrays of Broughton. Marriage to a Lennox heiress brought the Cally estate into the possession of Richard Murray (d. 1690), and each of the next two generations married into the family of the Earls of Galloway, their near-neighbours in Wigtownshire. The mother of James Murray (d. 1799), builder of this mansion and Broughton House in Kirkcudbright (no. 14), was daughter of the 5th Earl, and his wife was his first cousin, daughter of the builder of Galloway House (no. 24). [...]	1986

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Exploring Scotland's Heritage: Dumfries and Galloway

RCAHMS: Exploring Scotland's Places - Dumfries and Galloway, 1986

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