Architecture Notes

Event ID 692916

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/692916

NT27SW 1.00 21068 74272

OWNER: Craigcrook Mortification, 19 Melville Street, Edinburgh.

ARCHITECTS: William Playfair - additions 1835

Thomas Leadbetter - billiard room & bedrooms 1891

David Roberts & John Jackson, painted library in imitation of dark oak to match some carvings that he (Lord Jeffrey) had purchased from Stirling Castle. Spring 1818.

EXTERNAL REFERENCES:

NAT. LIB. Sketches of Scottish Scenery, p.1 -2 drawings

PUB. LIT. Scots Magazine, April 1810 -1 engraving

N.M.R. (London) Bedford Lemere Register, 7 27730 -38 negatives

/3 11251 /6 -negatives

11261 /2 -negatives

N.L.S. MS 7348 Note on decoration (presumbably Playfair wing) by D.R. Hat. Work directed by Lord Jeffrey's wife.

PLANS:

E.U.L. Playfair College 1835 - 55 sheets.