Architecture Notes

Event ID 786120

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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ND16NW 65 11589 68513

REFERENCE - Scottish Record Office

Estimate of a new house for William Sinclair of Freswick.

Estimate is for 120 pounds. Elevation drawn.

1816 GD 136/873

Account for Mason and Wright work done on a house for William Sinclair

of Freswick. Total sum

William Henderson Architect? Factor?

1818-19 GD 136/875/21-22

1820 23.

REFERENCE - Scottish Record Office

Thurso, House

Account for wright work done for William Sinclair of Freswick by John Shearer and James Ross 'in the house now possessed by the said William Sinclair'.

Work is now undertaken both in the main House and the Wings.

1817-1820 GD 136/875/11

Thurso. Freswick dwelling house in Thurso.

Estimate for carpenter and plaster work, for the addition intended to be built at the West end of the dwelling house.

Total amount 70.0.8.

[Early 19th century] GD 136/823

[?Thurso] Balusters for William Sinclair of Freswick's House.

Letter of apology from W Miller to William Henderson, Writer.

The balusters had not been ready for shipping from Leith.

1819 GD 136/875/10

Alterations and additions carried out on William Sinclair of Freswick's new dwelling house.

Account and note of payments to Daniel Taylor, Mason, for building stairs, taking down the wall between the staircase and the main stair, taking down the arch and wall in the low flat, building up scuntions, inserting 18 polished chimneys and hearths and hewing and polishing old hearths.

1819 GD 136/875/9

Carriage of building materials for the Main House and the New Wing of William Sinclair of Freswick's 'new dwelling house'. Account for carting sand and receipt for freight of sundries.

1818-1819 GD 136/875/7-8