Architecture Notes

Event ID 820574

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/820574

NX97NW 83.00 93385 77802

NX97NW 83.01 93155 77637 Terregles House, Stables

NX97NW 83.02 93611 77176 Terregles House, Lodge

NX97NW 83.03 93259 77864 Terregles House, Fountain

NX97NW 83.04 93321 77773 Terregles House, Bridge

ARCHITECT: Sir Robert Smirke

Gutted c1956

Demolished c1964

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Plans

Original plans at Traquair House, Peeblesshire

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Christie's, Scotland

Printed Books Auction, Thursday 7 June 1990, Sale Catalogue entry:

Lot 236 Maxwells of Terregles,

A collection of eighteen account books, including estate rental 1758-76, 1719-26 and 1820-27, lease and tack 1757-1832, estate ledge 1820-26 and 1827-1900, charge and discharge 1759-81, 1857-93, seredent 1757-72, 1772-1818, copy letters 1757-76, leases 1820-42 and rental of Caravrock, also two other ledgers, mainly reserve sheet or half calf, folio.

Note. The volume of copy letters contains a large correspondence from John Syme, writer to the Privy Seal, to the Lord of Nithsdale and others, also included in the account are references to the building of hte new house of Terregles in 1788-89 (18)

£1000/1,500