Architecture Notes

Event ID 789972

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NT37SW 80.00 31773 72432

NT37SW 80.01 317 724 Garden

NT37SW 80.02 31729 72402 Steading

ARCHITECT: Sir William Bruce 1673

Alexander McGill - ordered to make plan of Brunstane by Lord Milton 1730

John Aitken, mason, work for Lord Milton 1764(?)

William Adam (?) design for addition to earlier house

SCOTTISH RECORD OFFICE REFERENCE:

In letters to Sir William Bruce, The Duke of Lauderdale comments upon plans for the house and gardens and suggests alterations

1672 - 1673

GD29/1897/6 - 8

NT37SW 80.01 317 724 Garden; Sundial

NT37SW 80.02 31729 72402 Steading

Demolition of the tower built here by the Crichtons was ordered in 1547, but a new L-plan house was probably built c. 1565. In 1632 ths passed to John, Lord Maitland, later second Earl and first Duke of Lauderdale. By 1639 he had remodelled the house, probably extending the N jamb to the W and adding a tower at the NE corner. In 1672 Lauderdale consulted Sir William Bruce about a major extension, and extensive building work was carried out in 1672-4. In 1733 Brunstane was bought by Lord Milton, who employed William Adam to rebuild the S range and make a new office court in 1735-44.

D MacGibbon and T Ross 1889; RCAHMS 1929; J Gifford, C McWilliam and D Walker 1984

Not to be confused with Brunston Castle NT25NW 4.