Architecture Notes

Event ID 688228

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NMRS REFERENCE:

Balcarres House was originally built in 1595.

OWNER: Earl of Crawford and Balcarres

ARCHITECT: David Bryce, 1863, additions, North East section and gates

William Burn, 1838, alterations and additions

Sir Robert Lorimer, 1898-1904, Estate Office and Gates

REFERENCE:

EDINBURGH CENTRAL LIBRARY:

Edinburgh Room

Scots Magazine, September 1811 - 1 engraving

SCOTTISH NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY:

Country Life, 9th August 1902 - article and photograph

RYLANDS LIBRARY, MANCHESTER:

William Burn - Plans

Letters of correspondence between James Lindsay and William Burn (copy in NMRS)

BALCARRES HOUSE, FIFE:

Burn & Bryce - Plans (photographic copies in NMRS)

RIBA LIBRARY:

Drawings Collection

William Burn additions to older house 1834, 2 sheets plans