Architecture Notes

Event ID 837353

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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EXTERNAL REFERENCE

Scottish Record Office

Dovecot:

Lessmoir. 'I have sent you a Plan of my Pigeon House which is somewhat off the common and very convenient for numbers. The cupola is painted white and there is a small pediment and Cornice above the Venetian window which is omitted in the Plan, also a small Pedestal betwixt the Cupola and Globe the expense of mine, which contains about eight hundred pigeon holes was about 25 pounds.'

Letter Al Gordon to James Watson of Saughton.

24 April 1758 GD150/3530/16