Architecture Notes

Event ID 727755

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NT37SW 168.00 32687 72505 (Gate Piers to SW of house 32645 72461)

ARCHITECT:

James Smith (c.1700)

William Adam (c.1720's)

John Craig (1790)

Restored in 1907.

NT37SW 52 32532 72437 Newhailes, Dovecot

NT37SW 168.01 3263 7256 Newhailes, Ice House

NT37SW 168.02 32554 72417 Newhailes, Stables

NT37SW 168.03 32509 72397 Newhailes, Gardener's Cottage

NT37SW 168.04 3254 7270 Newhailes, Grotto

NT37SW 168.05 3253 7293 Newhailes, Tea House

NT37SW 168.06 32590 72680 Newhailes, Earl of Stair's Monument

NT37SW 168.07 3255 7253 Newhailes, Walled Gardens, Fruit Store and Terraced Walk

NT37SW 168.08 32666 72301 Newhailes, Newhailes Road, Main Gate

NT37SW 168.09 3273 7246 Newhailes, Formal Garden, Geophysical Survey

NT37SW 168.10 32649 72298 Newhailes, Lodge

NT37SW 168.11 32642 72492 Newhailes, Servants' Tunnel

The Green bedroom is also known as the Grisaille bedroom

Information transcribed from Architecture Index, 1997:

REFERENCE:

National Library of Scotland: Newhailes Papers

MS 25673-8

A series of albums compiled by Lady Newhailes and her sister the Countess of Cassilis with photographs of Newhailes including the Library, the present Chinese Room as the Billiard Room, 18th Century Great Drawing Room as Bt.'s Study and the Entrance Hall c.1905, views of the house and gardens, Watkin's feeding peacocks, herbaceous borders etc.

Including a newscutting of a Country Life type article illustrating China Room, Library and Dinner table set for a meal in Dining Room.

Also a letter notice for the house: 'Whoever the architect may have been he created a stately and . . . interior which has never been interfered with . . . even bedrooms panelled . . .'

REFERENCE:

Information from Helen Smailes, Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Henry and John Cheere

Dalrymple of Newhailes Papers (National Library of Scotland)

Correspondence of Sir James Dalrymple of Hailes, 2nd Bart, fos 153/4 - Letter from Henry Cheere, London

'Sir, I Recd the favour of yrs the Chimney with the Lyons Head and Skin is so far done that it cannot without a great deal of Expence be altered so I hope Sir you will be so good to excuse it tis very pretty veind that it is usd in it, so I hope Sir altogether it will make a very good chimney piece. I return many thanks Sir for the ?80 wch. I recd. I am going on as fast as I can possibly and will use my utmost endeavour to do 'em in the very best Manner I am greatly oblig'd to you Sir for your favours and am Sir your most obedt servt to Commd

Henry Cheere

Westminster Septr the 6th 1739'

fo 55 - Receipt from John Cheere

Nov:br the 19th 1740

Rec:d of the Hon:ble Sir James Dalrymple by the hands of Mr George Honeyman the sum of forty five pounds and three shillings in full for the two Statues of Gladiators and two Sphynx and in full demands

[by] me John Cheere

Pounds 45: 3. 0.

REFERENCE:

Scottish Field, September 1949

Article by Sheila Forman

(not held by NMRS)

REFERENCE:

Country Life, September 1917

(not held by NMRS)

NMRS REFERENCE

W Schomberg Scott Photograph Collection Acc no 1997/39, 3 prints: interior, the dining room and detail of staircase ironwork stables, oblique view.