Architecture Notes

Event ID 785418

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NM71NE 3.01 Ardmaddy Castle, Court of Offices

NM71NE 3.02 Ardmaddy Castle, Garden Bridge

NM71NE 3.03 Ardmaddy Castle, Marble Quarry

NM71NE 51 Ardmaddy Castle, Boat House

ARCHITECTS:

James Gillespie Graham - stables, 1838

David Bryce - erected house in 1862 originnly designed by Gillespie Graham in 1838

Thomas McCrae - alterations to mid-18th Century wing, 1924

REFERENCE:

NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF SCOTLAND (SCOTTISH RECORD OFFICE)

GD 112/15

Vouchers of Factors Accounts 1643 - 1797.

GD 209/16

William Duff, mason, for viewing old house of Ardmaddy and making a plan and estimate of a new house to be built there, 1730 - 1731.

90 112/16 (Breadalbane)

3/1/1

Inventory of plans, elevations, working mouldings etc., prepared for Ardmaddy Castle. n.d.

3/1/2

Measurement of work from plans of court of stables offices at Ardmaddy. James Gillespie Graham Esq. With a sketch of carving at the bottom of a window.

Report on proposed building at the House of Ardmaddy.

Letter from James Gillespie Graam, Architect [1776-1855] to Sir William Drummond Stewart in St Louis.

[Details of proposals follow]

1838 GD 121/Box101/Vol xxi/87

[Cross reference GD 112/20/5]

Proposed improvements to the House of Ardmaddy.

He has also prepared a design for the improvement of the house of Ardmaddy, which with additions is to be converted into the character of The Scottish Castle possessed by the barons of old. Also a handsome Court of Offices placed at the bottom of the bank and to be united with the Castle by a between wall with loopholes in it. The stabes are being roofed but the Castle will not be undertaken next year.

1838 GD 121/Box101/Vol xxi/89

(Stewart of Grandtully)