Architecture Notes
Event ID 833418
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
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NS89NW 29.00 81221 96709 Airthrey Castle
NS89NW 29.01 81667 96573 East Lodge
NS89NW 29.02 81460 96897 Walled Garden
NS89NW 29.03 81492 96987 Garden Cottage
NMRS REFERENCE
Architect: Robert Adam, 1790. Castellated.
EXTERNAL REFERENCE
Original drawings at Gleneagles House, Perthshire.
Soane Museum Drawings - Adam Collection, Vol 48 Nos. 75-89.
NMRS REFERENCE
Designs for a D-plan castellated house for Robert Haldane Esq. Very late in Adam's ouevre, with earlier designs begun 1790, and these castellated proposals (see collection items B30609 -B30611), proberbly early 1791. Executed without Robert Adam's supervision, but instead under Thomas Russell, who offered a cheaper rate. Forecourt never built; entrance front rebuilt 1891. (See A.Rowan, 'Designs For Castles and Country Villas', p.144-145).
EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
Scottish Records Office
GD 124/17/674/2/Page 306
Repairs and furnishings for Airthrey Castle.
Note of payments amounting to £250.8.4.
Ledger
1852