Architecture Notes

Event ID 823391

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Scottish Record Office

Proposed lodge to be built [at Balbirnie]. Letter from [General] Robert Balfour to John Bruce.....'the stone of my quarry is too soft a nature for pillars of a gate and some little ornamental work I require, I have to request you would allow me to get some stones for this purpose from a new quarry found on Greenhill...about a mile NW of Nuthill House'.

28 May 1823 GD152/218/5/Bundle 13/7