Architecture Notes

Event ID 766937

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NT29SE 4.00 25625 91768

NT29SE 4.01 25518 91855 Stable Court

NT29SE 4.02 25510 91794 Icehouse

NT29SE 4.03 26378 91559 Burial Ground

NT29SE 4.04 25447 91720 Laundry House

NT29SE 4.05 26936 91599 Proposed Lodge

NT29SE 4.06 27125 91382 Old Gate to Walled Garden

NT29SE 78 27270 91199 Lodge and Gateway (now Electricity Substation)

NT29SW 10 24957 91880 Raith Tower (Folly)

NT29SW 79 23508 92126 Lambswell (Folly)

NT29SW 81 23512 92720 Bankhead of Raith Farmhouse

NT29SW 83 23571 91291 West Balbarton Farmhouse

Owner: A.B.L. Munro Ferguson of Raith and Novar

Architect: James Playfair - additions 1785 to house of 1694

Thomas White 1783 - improvements

REFERENCE

SCOTTISH RECORD OFFICE

Building of Raith House.

Account for plaster, wright (lime), and ironwork.

1696-98

GD 26/6/157

The Building of Raith House.

John Orrock's account books for disbursement of funds. Masons: John Anderson and Alexander Govinlock. Cost ?14,712.13.4.

1693-97

GD 25/6/152

James Playfair writes that he is busy for Mr Ferguson's new wing for Raith House. He is to have a library 35' x 22' x 18'.

1785

GD 151/11/32

SRO/RHP/44084 Photocopy of plan of improvements of Raith 1783 by Thomas White (with vignette of ruins).

(Undated) information in NMRS (Architecture Catalogue slip).