Architecture Notes
Event ID 827802
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
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NMRS REFERENCE
Architect: William Adam begun 1732
John Baxter - mason 1732-34
Archibald Simpson 1822 - additions
Wardrop & Reid - additions
G.E. Street 1882 - chapel
Wright & Mansfield, London decoration (interior)
George Bennett Mitchel - proposed reconstruction 1930
James Giles RSA. 1830s & 1840s - landscape
A.G.R. Mackenzie states that Dr William Kelly has original plans of the house - see miscellaneous box.
John Baxter receipts & John Wilson receipts - photocopies
Inventory of plans to Haddo House estate - typescript (R6(P14))
Copies of original plans held in the estate office, Haddo:-
- 1 photograph showing water supply to house
- 1 photograph alteration to a wing 1843
Archibald Simpson (?) c. 1828 - 5 photograph plans for additions
William Smith 1872 - 1 photograph showing alterations to drains
Wardrop & Reid 1879-81 - 41 photographs plans for additions
Wright & Mansfield c. 1880 - 3 photographs plans
- 11 photographs plans of additions 1880 - c.1890
1881 - 2 photographs plans of new drains
Geo: Mitchell & Son 1930 - 7 photographs plans of proposed reconstruction
G.E. Street - 28 photographs plans of chapel
- 1 photograph plan for alteration to washing house
- 1 photograph foundations of Hydraulic Engine
Letter & copy from Dr Wm Kelly 8 November 1925, to Dr Alexr. Ross - manuscript and typed copy
EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
Aberdeen Public Library - slides
Haddo House - Plan in house showing elevation of a belevedere sgd James Skinner 1843. Inf. from Lord
Haddo House Estate Office (Inv R6(P14) c.1904 - 1 sheet lay-out of Sir Allan's Drive
1907&9 - 5 sheets plans for renovation of steading
SRO:-
Invoices for timber shipped from Fredrikstad and from ? Amount to #168.8.5 and #128.6.0
1732 & 1733 GD33/65/12
Smith's account from John Coats for #21
1741 GD33/65/12
Glasswork. Request from Robert Mill that Daniel Allan should be paid the sum of #14.15 (Scots)
ND GD33/65/12
Wright's account for work at Haddo House for Earl of Aberdeen. It amounts to #712.8.0 Rendered by William Crystall
1730 GD33/65/12
Obligation by slaters William Thomson & William Mackie to undertake work for Sir George Gordon of Haddo presently.
1727 GD33/30/53
Supplies for building at Kelly House. Decreet of Preference by Francis Erskine of Kirkbuddo against William, E. of Aberdeen for payment.
1736 GD33/30/57
Mason's work. Account to Earl of Aberdeen from Joshua Smith for #293.15.7 3/4
1808 Receipted 1811
Bricklayer's work. Account to Earl of Aberdeen from William Treadgold for #38.0.5 3/4
Mason's work. Account of Earl of Aberdeen from Joshua Smith for #45.11.7
1808 GD33/65/12
Contract for plasterwork at Kelly House. Drawn up between William, E of Aberdeen and Alex. Wilson, plasterer in Edinburgh.
1792 GD33/30/56
Commission for timber from Norway to Capt. Alex. Stewart from Earl of Aberdeen.
1733 GD33/30/55
Plans by William Adam.
Letters from the Earl of Aberdeen and John Baxter, architect, concerning the progress of the building and some problems with William Adam's draughts.
1731-35 GD18/5005
SRO - RHP 9926 1802 - photostat plan of policies
D McAndrew, Aberdeen 1891 6 photographs plans for new hall or covered tennis court