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Standing Building Recording
Date September 2007 - December 2007
Event ID 558749
Category Recording
Type Standing Building Recording
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/558749
NT 9474 6436 Monitoring of on-going building works, with upgrading of previous analytical and drawn record of the interiors of this classical mansion house of c1753–4 (see DES 2006) was undertaken between September and December 2007.
Allyson McDermott undertook comprehensive sampling of historic wallpapers and Colin Mitchell-Rose carried out paint analysis, revealing extensive evidence of interior decorative schemes. The entrance hall walls were revealed to have been surfaced with plaster ruled out to suggest ashlarwork, painted stone colour with the joints picked out in a slightly darker tone; this contrasted notably with the intense turquoise/blue of the
surrounding woodwork.
Further concealed areas were identified on the stairwell and at the wall heads in the loft space. The latter consisted of a small compartment lined with sections of Chinese tea chest that retained hand-painted Chinese characters on decoratively printed paper coverings. Miscellaneous items found beneath floorboards included a pair of 18th-century breeks and two coins of George II.
A small brick-vaulted, masonry-walled chamber was exposed during groundworks; this had been cut into the steep slope just to the NE of the house, possibly a wellhead.
Archive deposited with RCAHMS.
Funder: Gunsgreen House Trust.
