Architecture Notes

Event ID 840410

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NX16SW 6.00 11048 60936

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EXTERNAL REFERENCE

Payment of £577.18.4 (Scots) to John Anderson, mason, 'for the new work at Castle Kennedy, conform to his discharge on the back of my Lord's contract'.

Factor's Accounts.

1706 GD 135/Box 33/1

Inventories of furnishing.

List furnishing room and room and give some indication of the lay out of the Castle.

1698 and 1702 GD 135/Box 33/13

Wright work.

Account of work done by James Paterson, wright. It includes work on the old Kitchen, the repair of windows, chimneys and roof and the making of a garret stair.

1710 GD 135/Box 35/4

Stair. John Earl of 1673-1747. Debts settlement of affairs

List includes:

Allan Ramsay, painter #28.10.0

Richard Couper, engraver #9.6.5

William Adam, architect #264.2.9

James Norie, painter #74.9.7

William Glass, gardener #160.0.0

1745-1751 GD 135/ Box 37/1/9-11X

Stair Estates: Farm Houses

Plans, specifications, estimates and accounts

1820-1833 GD 135/Box 64/7

Plan of kitchen premises

ND GD 135/Box 43/7/9

Plan. Unidentified room

18th c. GD 135/Box 53/16

Kirkmaiden and Glenluce. Measurement of the Earl of Stair's Estates and drawing of Plans.

Receipted account for #92.12.7 1/2 from John Gillone, Surveyor.

1794 GD 135/Box 51/9/4

Measurement of Craigoch Lands. (Kirkcolm)

Letter from John Gillone, Surveyor. He acknowledges payment of #27.12.3.

1793. GD 135/Box 51/9/1

Ardd. Parks

Plan of part.

ND GD 135/Box 50/4/13

Lochinch. The Park

Plans (2)

ND GD 135/Box 47/11/10

Survey Plans.

Letter to George Guthrie (factor at Culhorn) from John Emslie, Surveyor.

The plans of Glenluce and New Luce are complete. The houses in Holm Street are to be marked on the plan of Portpatrick and a sketch has been made fo Drumore.

1841 GD 135/Box 62/31/5

Surveying and planning of the Estate of Stair.

Receipt for 10 guineas from James Jamerson.

1749 GD 135/Box 36/15

Surveying and drawing a plan of the Estate in Inch Parish and measuring new subdivisions of the Parks.

Copies made of the Original Plans of the estates in the Parishes of Leswalt, Kirkmaiden, Old Luce and Inch.

Receipted accounts from John Gilmore for #176.13.1 1/2 and #30.17.4 1/2

1796 and 1979 GD 135/Box 50/6/2/2 and 3

John Dalrymple, Stranraer, to Ld Stair, 14 December, 1722.

Thos McCaul, Stair's gardener, is just away at Portpatrick. 'I wrote to Coll : Cathcart to speak to Boucher for the plan which I expect against ye Gardner return.

Stair MSS GD 135/139. No 3.

Account of a fire.

'.....the maid had put on a fire in the drawing room for airing the room and went to bed after she had put out the fire, however in the night it broke out and burnt all so as they [the servants] had much difficulty to make their own escape and could save nothing but my son's own picture and two more. I know he will be concerned because Castle Kennedy was the favourite house.......'.

Letter from Elizabeth Stair.

November 3 1716 GD 135/141/Volume 8/57

New addition to the Gardens.

Receipt for clearing the ground for the new addition and throwing up earth for the sunk fence.

1746-1747 GD 135/Box 42/3/14

Gardens.

Receipts from Thomas McCall for payments to journeymen, gardeners and labourers. 1747-1750

Receipted account from John McCredie for gardeners' wages 1760-1762.

Order for seeds etc [?for Culhorn]. 1780-1781.

1747-1781 GD 135/Box 52/21/1-6

The Gardens.

'There was a part of Castle Kennedy called The Wilderness in which there were various grass walks, regularly mown, some clumps of laurels, ornamental wood and hedges. About 30 years ago the late Earl of Stair thought all this too formal, ordered most of the laurels and ornamental wood to be cut, disposed of, that part thrown open and the intersecting hedges destroyed'.

1832 GD 135/139/2/76 (Volume)

Description of a visit.

Letter from Ann Dalrymple to Lady Dalrymple.

She describes Castle Kennedy as 'one of the charmingest places ever I saw'.

1744 GD 110/1082/2

RHP 4677 A Fowler 1843 layout of gardens