Architecture Notes

Event ID 798471

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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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.