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Architecture Notes
Event ID 791798
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/791798
NMRS REFERENCE:
Extract from letter of Mr John Reid, 10 Graeme Place, Falkirk, to Geoffrey Stell, June 1990:
'At the present time I am attempting to write histories of the baronies of Dunipace and Denny. I note from Stirlingshire ii, p.397 f that no attempt has been made to date "the old house of Dunipace". This was invariably known in earlier times as "The Place of Dunipace" and it seems possible to narrow a date to within thirty years. The Dunipace writs contain a charter of 1522 in which Walter Forrester of Torwood resigns 3 roods of land in favour of Mr Alexander Livingston, son of Alexander Livingston of Dunipace, described as being "at the east end of the town thereof" and which bears the later endorsement "Chartour quhairupone the place is situat". [SRO GD1/529/321]. In a letter of 1558 to his son John concerning the marches of the estate, the same Mr Alexander Livingston mentions the house when describing the extent of "morrayes landis" which he says "lay in rin [rig] with johne gilmuir and robert sklandars in ye ryt syd of ye place od donypace". [SRO GD1/529/47].
It is also of interest to note the letter makes mention of a dovecote - certainly one of the earliest references to such in this area. It reads; "ye clark hes thrie buttis at ye end of my dowcatt".'
