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Sir Basil Spence
Event ID 616541
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Sir Basil Spence
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/616541
Building Notes
Quothquhan was designed by Basil Spence as a private job while he was working in the Edinburgh practice of Rowand Anderson and Paul and Partners. He was commissioned in February 1937, drawings were submitted to the local authority in April 1937 and the house was completed in October 1938.
Quothquhan was designed for Alexander Erskine-Hill, Conservative MP for North Edinburgh. The brief was that it was to be a close approximation of Culter House, an early 18th century laird's house that he had once rented nearby. Quothquhan is the smallest of three country houses that Spence designed in the 1930s, the others being Gribloch in Stirlingshire and Broughton Place in the Borders.
Archive Details
The Sir Basil Spence Archive holds ten photographs and three drawings for this project. The latter depict plans for an earlier scheme than that which was carried out, although any changes are minimal. For plans and elevations of the amended design, the Spence, Glover and Ferguson Collection, also held by RCAHMS, has nine drawings by Spence.
This text was written as one of the outputs of the Sir Basil Spence Archive Project, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, 2005-08.
