Architecture Notes

Event ID 796919

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NMRS REFERENCE:

Skye, Kyleakin-Township.

Architect: James Gillespie Graham. c. 1810

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Scottish Record Office.

Plan of the proposed town of Kyleakin.

Account for a 'reduced plan' and the printing of 300 impressions of the engraving. It amounts to 44.14.3

Certified as correct by James Gillespie, Architect, and receipted by John Bell.

1811 GD 221/28/17, Account and GD 221/49/2 Payment noted.

Building erected at Kylekin for fishing offices.

Letter concerning the work, from James Ferguson to John McPherson, Chamberlain at Portree.

1812 GD 221/27/18

Names for streets and squares of the new village.

James Gillespie informed Lord Macdonald's Commissioners that Lord Macdonald had declined to name the streets and squares. The Commisioners therefore submitted names to Lord MacDonald on a plan and asked him to approve or alter. Minutes.

1812 GD 221/48/17

Freight of Plans for the new village.

Receipted account from John Laird and Co.

The freight included plans, a frame for a plan and the Feu contract.

1813 GD 221/68/3/1

Laying the foundatin of the village.

Expense of entertainment.

Expense of meat to workmen cutting and lining the front street, measuring the streets and laying the back street.

Items included in account from Mr Gillespie, Architect.

1812-1813 GD 221/49/2

Report on lack of progress in building the projected town. Building is at a standstill. It is considered that it was begun on too great a scale and those who built the four principal houses are bankrupt. Smaller houses costing 150 pounds are to be encouraged but the principal street is to be left for the envisaged larger houses. James Ferguson is to investigate the possibility of making a large unroofed house into an Inn. Report on Lord Macdonald's Estate in Skye.

1829 GD 221/121

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Scottish Record Office.

Skye, Kyleakin.

RHP 5998. - J. Gillespie - engraving of plan and elevations of houses.