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Architecture Notes

Event ID 728924

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/728924

NO20SE 93.04 2866 0262 Balbirnie Mains Farm, Dairy

REFERENCE : Scottish Record Office (Probably West Lodge, by date)

Proposed lodge to be built (at Balbirnie). Letter from (General) Robert Balfour to John Bruce ...'the stone of my quarry is too soft a nature for pillars of a gate and some little ornamental work I require, I have to request you would allow me to get some stones for this purpose from a new quarry found on Greenhill ...about a mile NW of Nuthill House'.

28 May 1823 GD 152/218/5/Bundle 13/7

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