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Architecture Notes
Event ID 798471
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/798471
Skye, Monkstadt House.
EXTERNAL REFERENCE
Scottish Records Office :
Proposed repair of the house.
The work is noted in 'Buildings to be erected in Skye in 1803'.
1803 GD 221/73/8
Proposed building of a stable, byre and cartshed.
Letters (2) from James Gillespie, Architect, to John Campbell, W. S.
He forwarded plans, specification and estimate. The barn is to be slated because he considers thatch unsuitable for that exposed part of the country.
1814 GD 221/24
Expense of repair of Mugstead House and building of a barn.
1802-1803 #437.14.8 1/4
1803-1904 #332.4.8 3/4
1804-1805 #47.12.1 1/4
1813-1814 #11.13.8
Abstract of Entailed Improvements. Certified by James Gillespie, Architect.
GD 221/43/42
EXTERNAL REFERENCE
Scottish Records Office :
Report on the condition of the house.
Letter from John Campbell, Chamberlain in Skye.
He enclosed a letter from James Gillespie about the House of Mugstot.
1801 GD 221/28/42
Rebuilding of the house.
Letter from James Gillespie, Architect to John Campbell, W. S.
He writes that he is at present preparing all the inside work for the House of Mugstead, which is to be gutted.
Meantime he has finished the barn and small additional buildings.
1803 GD 221/91
(Undated) information in NMRS.
