Architecture Notes

Event ID 779381

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NT27SE 350.00 29081 72374

NT27SE 350.01 29034 72416 Offices and Stable block

NT27SE 3737 29116 72733 Temple

NT27SE 3738 29502 72732 Gates and Gate Piers

NT27SE 3739 2918 7270 Estate

NT27SE 3740 28974 72559 Ice house

Built for the 8th Early of Abercorn, 1763-7, architect Sir William Chambers.

OSA 1796; RCAHMS 1951.

ARCHITECT: Sir William Chambers 1763 - 1768

Archibald Handyside - employed on building excluding fine 'carved work' 1763

John Aitken - decorative carving 1763

Mr Kay - overseer ?Robert Kay

OWNER: Earl of Abercorn (SOld to Mr Gladstone, Linton Lodge Hotel, East Linton, 1959)

REFERENCE:

Edinburgh Room, Central Library, Edinburgh

Robert Brown

Duddingston Estate. Two steadings and repairs and alterations to existing farmhouse and offices

Advertisement for tenders, 1823

(Edinburgh Evening Courant, April 12, 1823)

Non-Guardianship Sites Plan Collection, DC23398, 1938.