Architecture Notes

Event ID 794236

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NMRS REFERENCE

ARCHITECTS: John Douglas - contract for addition 1747

Robert Adam, 1790 - additions to earlier house.

The interior of this Category B Listed building was gutted for grain drying in Winter 1962-3.

Information from Demolitions catalogue held in RCAHMS library.

EXTERNAL REFERENCE

Scottish Record Office:

Wright work at Archerfield. Receipted accounts from Frances and Richard Buchan. They amount to #318.14.2 3/4

1778-1781 GD205/Box 48/Portfolio 18

Repair and furnishing of Archerfield House. Estimate from William Hamilton amounts to #218.13.5

He writes 'it is only proposed to make the apartments neat and clean upon the smallest expense that the present condition of the house will admit off'.

1777 GD205/Box 48/Portfolio 18

The Green and Hot houses at Archerfield. Measurements and accounts for joiner and glazier work on the pineries, peach house and greenhouse.

1780 GD205/Box 48/Portfolio 18

Proposed plan of a tower for Archerfield.

Letter from John Jackson (1778-1831) to Mrs Hamilton Nisbet Ferguson. He writes that he hopes to afford Mr Atkinson (?) (William Atkinson c.1773-1839) some useful hints for the plan of the tower and that Beaumont will make it as old as the venerable fabric to which it will be an appendage.

1827 GD205/Box 48/Portfolio 18

GD205/Box48/Portfolio 18.

Thomas of Duddingston. (Rev. John) (1778-1840). Landscape.

'A View of the Belfry of Archerfield'

GD205/Box48/Portfolio 18

'Haddingtonshire' 'Archerfield Estate'

'To be Exposed FOR SALE, by Public Auction, unless previously Sold. Privately, within Dowell's Rooms, 18 George Street, Edinburgh, on Wednesday, 9th February, 1921, at 2:15 o'clock.

ARCHERFIELD HOUSE, Garden Policies, Home Farm, Woodland, Graes Parks, Houses, Sawmill, etc and Private Golf Course close by of 18 Holes, extending in all to about 1033 Acres.

The House contains 8 Public Rooms, Ample servants and Office Accomodation, Stables, Garage, etc. with Telephone, Gas, Gravitation Water. Sanitary arrangements in good order.

Post Office 1/2 mil. DIrleton Station 2 .Gullane 1 1/2 miles. Drem 3 miles, North Berwick 2 3/4 miles. Sea Beach 1 1/4 miles.'

For further particulars, apply to Messrs Dundas and Wilson, C.S 16 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh; or to Mr W.S. Curr Estate Office. Ninewar, Prestonkirk, who will arrange for intending Purchasers being shown over the Property.

T.F Dibdin - 'A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and Scotland, 1838'

Vol. II page 978 - see Bibliography

'....There is, however, a sort of state drawing-room; of a beautiful form but not yet completely furnished. It is a parallelogram, about forty feet in length, by twenty-five in width and sixteen in height. It is papered with that elegant French paper introduced into this country a little after the year 1790. A large bay window is at one end; and at the other, on entrance, there is a semicircular niche on each side, which, I presume, will be the receptacle of some classical vase or figure'

This paper is shown on Adam's design for the Dining Room Vol. 27 No.8 cf Adam's design for Moccas Court.

Robert Adam accounts, 1790-1791

GD 6/1644

Measurement of painting and plasterwork after alterations. John Wallace

1777 GD 6/1625/10

Furniture Accounts in Ogilvie of Inverquanty (?) papers.

SC40/67/62 Improvement Registers (Entailed Estates).

General account of money expended for making a new addition to and reparations to Archerfield House.

Page 2. 1792. Paid for stone from quarry at Gulane.

Paid Richard Cooke, london, on account for statuary marble chimney and sundries.

Page 36. Paid John Coney, plasterer in Edinburgh 11 October, 1791 for Great room ceiling as per estimate. Ante Room, Saloon, Library - enriched mouldings to top of cove - and Dining Room - lintel mouldings - Staircase ornament string.

Paid John Vetch, Aygust 1791. Cutting four stones, drappery and roses for portico - 28 days #3.10/-

Setting up marble including chimneypieces.

George Burn, overseer at Archerfield, and William Thomson, mason in Gulane.

Page 44. July 1791. Richard Cooke supplying statuary marble chimneypiece with venus tablet fluted frieze and pilasters and black slips for Register stove etc.

Page 86. Dec 1792. John Hamilton plasterer in Rockville. Polished mouldings in porch, flutes in freize, stone hall and porch.

Page 90. To 3 days plastering putting up figures in the great room at 2/6d and labourers at 10d. Plaster modelling and casting flower for the ante-chamber.

Page 94. 1792 Marshall and Armstrong, Leadwork.

2 ornamental balconies and 6 scroll brackets.

Page 99. 1792 Painting.

Library. Papering and painting walls gray.

Painting and whitewashing ceiling and cove.

Saloon. Dead white, 82 yards green on walls. 70 yards painting and whitewashing on ceiling.

Ante-Room. Dead white and yellow. Painting 16 large swags.

Great Room. Oil and painting colours in ceiling and cornices - dead white - varnishing 3 windows.

Page 113. 1792 David Blair, plasterer - 8 metre leaves in angles of cornices.

Page 114. Richard Cook, 1793 - to an elegant statuary marble chimneypiece for Drawing Room. #64.3.7

Pages 273-288. Work on South pavilion, paid 1795.

(Undated) information in NMRS.