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Architecture Notes
Event ID 788209
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/788209
Architect: William Burn, 1835 - alterations and additions.
James Matthews, c.1860 - proposed alterations.
George Truefitt - additions.
Thomas MacKenzie - attribution,
George Bennett Mitchell - c.1900 Thomas Mawson c.1900 design for garden - not executed.
NMRS REFERENCE:
Plans: Copies of drawings and watercolour (1884) in possession of The Earl of Aboyne.
Copy of R.I.B.A Drawing Collection, William Burn, 1835.
Sale catalogue, 5th August 1921, (Messrs Davidson adn Garden, 12 Dee Street, Aberdeen), illustrated, missing at time of upgrade, 24.9.1999
I.G. Lindsay Collection, W/81.
EXTERNAL REFENENCE:
National Archive of Scotland
Repair of the Old House of Aboyne.
Account of money distributed to masons, wrights, slaters and others. It amounts to #366.17.4. Discharges indicate that the various sums included payments for work at Charlestoun.
1686-87 GD 181/196.
Inspection of House of Aboyne and Office Houses.
Receipted account from William Reid, mason and John Watson, joiner, of Aberdeen.
Covering letter from William Lindsay.
1718 GD 181/212
The Old and New Mansion.
Receipted account for wright work by Andrew Moir includes the inspection of the Mansions and the Garden of Aboyne.
1719 GD 181/212
Repair of the roof of the House of Aboyne.
Receipted account from William Wallace, plumber in Aberdeen, for 85.14.3
1739 GD 181/188
Agreement between John Stewart in Milntoune of Whytehouse and William Break in Meikle Wragum, whereby William Break would deliver 3000 slates for the use of the Earl of Aboyne.
1696 GD 181/210
Building work at the House of Aboyne.
Receipted account from John Simpsone, slater for placing a partition between the kitchen and the milkhouse and preparing slates for 'new slating the Torrets' at Aboyne.
1732-33 GD 181/191 and
1734 GD 181/205 page 6.
The building of the West side of the close.
Incomplete note of the work to be done by Alexander Ross at Aboyne. He is to build the West side of the close, cosisting of a kitchen and bakehouse and other rooms conforming to a plan and directions to be given to him by Alexander Jaffray of Kingswells. (1677- )
N,d GD 181/212
Aboyne, 10th Marquess of Huntly
SCULPTOR: G H Smith of London 1867
