Architecture Notes
Event ID 841322
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
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NMRS REFERENCE:
OWNER: Earl of Wemyss
OCCUPIER: Capt. A.R.C. Stevenson
ARCHITECT: Robert Adam 1789
Seton Palace demolished in 1790.
EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
Scottish Record Office
Seton Castle.
Contract for building Seton Castle between Alexander Mackenzie and Adam and Thomas Rusel.
1789 GD 18/4965
National Library
Country Life, 23 May, 1968. Article and photographs by John Fleming.
EL. Agriculture Survey 'p 33 " Seton House, which presented one of the most regular and pleasing plans of any ancient fabric in the county, was some years since pulled down by Mr Mackenzie, the late proprietor, and rebuilt, in a style of architecture peculiar to itself, and which admits of no accurate description'. 1805.