Architecture Notes

Event ID 763627

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/763627

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INFORMATION TAKEN FROM THE ARCHITECTURE CATALOGUE:

ARCHITECT:

Paul Waterhouse, present house.

(James Gillespie Graham was the architect of the previous house on the site, 1820)

Now a Maternity Home known as Craigtoun Hospital.

Some park buildings were demolished in 1966.

REFERENCE:

SCOTTISH RECORD OFFICE:

Rough sketch plans of different lay outs of the Estate indicating projected alterations.

The Mansion house, Garden, Offices, Sunk fences, Lumbo Farmstead and The House of Ballon are shown.

1783, 1785, 1786

GD 126/Box 9

Proposed Gateways and Lodges.

A handsome Gateway and Lodge should be built where the Approach joins the main road. There is to be another Gateway and Lodge at Ballan and it is suggested that the present gate might be left but not used and 2 pillars errected to give the idea of a Gate of Entry at the NE corner of the Park.

1796

GD 126/Box 9

Account of expense of building the New House.

Note of sums paid to masons, wrights, plasterer and slater.

1698

GD 126/Box 5

Description of proposed layout of House and Garden. ' ... The Approach towards and thro' The Old Garden to the S.E. corner of the New One when is should sweep round towards the New House to be built and situated on the N. side of the New Garden or in the strip or belt of trees N. of it ... The Old House to be pulled down and a garden placed nearly in its situation but rather more South. A new set of office houses to be built nearby on the site of the present.'

1796

GD 126/Box 9

Ideas for 'embellishing' Mount Melville.

Notes concerning the position of the New House and the lay out of the Park.

Unsigned.

1796

GD 126/Box 9

[Some details follow]

Expense of alteration to the House.

Hutchison's account for building the new addition and extra work to the Old House, the new kitchen court and an iron balcony had amounted to ?5,115.11.81/2. Tradesmen's accounts brought the sum spent to ?7012.0.01/2.

1823

GD 126/Box 3

[Architect James Gillespie Graham 1776-1855]

Plan for a Library over the Dining Room as suggested by Mr Whyte.

Unsigned.

1795

GD 126/Box 9