Architecture Notes

Event ID 708967

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NT17SW 36.00 11088 73536 Newliston House

NT17SW 36.01 10942 73410 Walled Garden

NT17SW 36.02 11289 73188 Lawn Park Cottage

NT17SW 36.03 11181 73152 South gate-lodge

NT17SW 36.04 11260 73467 Inner lodge

NT17SW 36.05 10805 73332 Garden House

NT17SW 36.06 10924 73980 Bastion

NT17SW 36.07 c.1115 7354 Sundial

NT17SW 33.00 1118 7350 Dovecot

NT17SW 38 10990 73393 Sundial

NT17SW 109 11083 73377 Stables and coach-house

NT17SW 110 11717 73425 East gate-lodge

NT17SW 111.00 1127 7352 Park

NT17SW 148.00 1104 7356 Newliston Old House

ARCHITECT: Robert Adam, 1789

David Bryce, forecourt, balustrade etc, 1845

NMRS REFERENCE:

I G Lindsay Collection, W/231

Additional Soane Drawings

Vol XXVII, 44 - elevation of Drawing Room showing panels (see B 10199?)

Vol. LII - 170 Terrace railings (Information from Mrs Margaret Swain)

SOTHEBY'S CATALOGUE:

Information from Mrs Swain)

34 - 35 New Bond Street, London, W1

1st? May, 1928

Property of Stewart Bayley Hog Esq, Newliston

Lot 142 - A remarkable set of twelve Adam applique needlework wall panels worked in fine felt and differently coloured threads on a rep background. The larger panels are designed with classical medallions, figures holding drapery, vases, cornucopia of flowers, and many other decorative devices of ancient Greece; the smaller panels with baskets of fruit etc, all in different colours comprising:

1 panel 7' 9" x 8' 3"

2 others 7' 9" x 3' 4"

2 others 7' 9" x 2' 2"

2 others 4' 4" x 3' 4"

A tall strip 7'9" x 1'

4 small panels 1' 10" x 3' 6"

This set was designed by Robert Adam for the small drawing room and was worked by Lady Mary Hog, first wife of Thomas Hog, who built Newliston (Amor 210 pounds).

Original NMRS reference slip inscribed 'Then Wateringbury, Kent?' by Ian Gow

SCOTTISH RECORD OFFICE REFERENCE:

GD 18/4719

Letter from William Adam, architect (1689 - 1748). He informs Sir John Clerk that he is at present working on a design for an addition to Newliston.

1723

GD 135/144

Adam receipt of 150 (pounds), 26th Oct, 1723

Clerk papers 30th Jan. 1723, Design of an addition to Newliston House

SCOTTISH NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY REFERENCE:

SMT Magazine, June 1952

Country Life, 1916 p.270

Delisted 2000