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Architecture Notes

Event ID 811985

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NMRS NOTES

Craigston Castle.

OWNER: Bruce Urquhart of Craigston

ARCHITECT: William Adam - scheme for lay-out of grounds 1733

designed wings 1730-4- - attribution

John Smith - new entrance doorway 1838. Designs for two storey addition which was not carried out.

NMRS/Simpson and Brown photographs

Box 2 album no.17

two exterior views.

CRAIGSTON CASTLE DRAWINGS

NMRS photographic survey of drawings at Craigston Castle including; eighteenthe century designs for unidentified house and Craigston Castle; sections of rooms at Craigston 1751; designs for alterations and additions by John Smith early nineteenth century and a scheme by 'Mr William Adams of the fields about the house of Craigstoun 1733'; bound volume with plans of Cromarty Castle 1746-1747 and eighteenth century designs for Craigston Castle; bound volume with plans of farms on Craigston Estate 1780 and 1782; bound volume plans of estate 1770-1779; eighteenth century plans and designs for gardens by James May 1749 and Charles W Crosser c. 1875; design for a greenhouse attributed to John Smith and a plan of the West Indian estates.

Copied 1967 and 1982. Inventory 11

EXTERNAL REFERENCE

National Library

Country Life January 13th 1915 - article and photographs

Country Life October 17th and 24th 1963 - article and photographs

People and Organisations

References