Architecture Notes

Event ID 840227

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NX55SE 11 59982 54946

Cally Palace spans 2 map sheets : NX55SE and NX65SW. Information from RCAHMS (LKFJ), Feb. 2002.

NX65NW 98 60343 55496 Cross Cottage

NX55SE 20 59188 54282 Cally Mains Farm

NX65NW 110 60540 56275 Main Gate Lodge, West

NX65NW 155 60568 56262 Main Gate Lodge, East

NX65SW 21 60570 54278 The Temple

NX65SW 23 60332 54825 Belvedere Lodge

NX65SW 61 60438 54964 Walled Garden

NMRS REFERENCE:

Architects - Robert Mylne 1759-63 - not built strictly to original design

John Buonarotti Papworth 1833-37

William Adam - design not carried out

Issac Ware c.1756 - design not carried out

Lanyon and Lynn - proposed additions 1857 (copies of drawings in NMRS)

Thomas Boyd 1794 - design for adds and alts

EXTERNAL REFERENCES:

Scottish Record Office:

RHP 8823 - plan and sections of a bakers oven, 1884

RHP 8822 - plan and elevations for a mansion house, Stephen Price

Alexander Murray's house at Cally. Description, plan, elevation and sketch

of proposed house. A letter accompanied the sketch.

1759 GD10/1421/287 and 288A

Glasswork for James Murray's new house at Cally. (Dimensions and number

of panes).

c. 1760 GD10/1188

Adam, William [1689 - 1748] James Nasmyth's letter to Alexander Murray of

Broughton and Cally mentions a visit to William Adam concerning plans for

Cally and the settling of the Architect's fee.

1742 GD10/1421/411

Catalogue of Sale at Cally House.

1846 GD 10/925

1742 - Area between pavillions - William Adam. GD10/1421/212

1759 - Plan and elevation. Robert Mylne. GD10/1421/287 and 288a

William Adam and James Naysmith. Letter concerning architect's fee etc.

Early 1742 GD10/1421/411

National Library of Scotland:

NLS MS 9704 W H Playfair's tour of Galloway, 7/8/1834

'Murray of Broughton's Place is superb and he has been most successful

in adding a Porte Cochere to his great hulk of a house. Papworth is

the architect and has shown his intelligence'.

Newhailes Papers

MS 25673-8 Photograph albums including views of Cally and Marble lobby

with statuary and attempt to soften look with upholstery carpets portiers etc c1905