Architecture Notes
Event ID 731982
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
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OWNER: Dame Flora MacLeod of MacLeod
ARCHITECT: William Burn (?)
Robert Brown - remodelling work 1840 - 50
Colin Sinclair - repairs after fire 1938 - 40
NMRS LIBRARY
'Scottish Country Life' May 1930, page 140 - photograph.
NMRS REFERENCE:
Dunvegan Castle, The Danish Tower.
Also referred to as the Danish fort.
DUNVEGAN CASTLE DRAWINGS
NMRS Photographic survey of drawings at Dunvegan Castle including; designs for additions to Dunvegan Castle by Robert Brown 1840 etc.
Copied 1982 Inventory 107
DUNVEGAN ESTATE OFFICE DRAWINGS
Nmrs Photographic curvey of Dunvegan Estate Office drawings copied per SRO including: survey plans of Dunvegan Castle by K and E MacKenzie 1920; design for improvement to Castle kitchens 1939; designs for restoration after fire of 24th November 1938 by Colin Simpson 1939; contract drawings for Dunvegan Hotel by Alexander Ross 1868; designs for Dunvegan Village Hall 1894; designs for estate buildings and a survey of St Kilda by John Mathieson.
Copied 1979 Inventory 107
EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
SCOTTISH RECORD OFFICE
1. Plan of part of castle showing proposed alterations
2. West elevation.
[1840]
Billiard room on level with present drawing room. MacLeod Private Collection
Plans of 2nd and 3rd storey of North wing. Give dimensions in great detail. c.1812