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Architecture Notes
Event ID 780024
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/780024
NS99NW 74.00 90108 97506 Alva House
NS89NE 124 89254 96975 Gate Lodges
NS89NE 125 89353 97399 Walled Garden
NS89NE 126 89990 97522 Stables
Alva House has been demolished. Information taken from Demolitions catalogue held in RCAHMS library.
Architect: Facade, Stables, Gates and Entrance Lodge - Robert Adam, 1789. Complete design was not carried out.
REFERENCE - Scottish Record Office
Repair of [Alva] House.
James Erskine informs John Campbell of Achallader that the bearer of the letter has come to look for workmen. '...my father (Lord Tinwald) being under a necessity of making some reparations has got his finger at least into the mortar tub.'
1753 D 170/1213/43 (Campbell of Barcaldine)
