Architecture Notes

Event ID 772511

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/772511

Designed by William Smith of Aberdeen, 1853-6. Granite-built quadrangular main house with clock-tower to east. Extensive lower blocks for servants and offices to east, around courtyard. Main block in distinctive style composed of elements of Tudor, Jacobean and Scots derivation.

Information from RCAHMS (NMC), 2002.

NMRS PLANS: F.A.M. MacDonald Collection Signed 'Appd Albert'.

Architects: Mills and Shepherd, 10 Tay Square, Dundee - additions, 1923.

Architects of Balmoral gates, Mills and Shepherd, 1922 and 1924.

Architects of Iron Ballroom: Belhouse and Company, Manchester.

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

National Library: 'The Builder', 1855, p.19 - engraving and plan.

Country Life, August 25th, 1960. p.366. Not held in NMRS.

(Undated) information in NMRS.