Architecture Notes

Event ID 841765

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NMRS REFERENCE:

Dates 1632-44 Sir Anthony Alexander. Architect. for his father Sir. Wm.

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Scottish Record Office

Letter concerning 'wastes and ruinous houses'.

The Duke of Argyll's property is in a ruinous state. Consequently those

that own the tenements opposite it both in Castle Wynd and the High Street

will not repair or rebuild theirs until the Duke declines to rebuild, he should have his

property taken down and levelled to make 'a terras from Mar's house to the

Cross, with a handsome parapet breast high, next the street coped with hewn

stone.'

Letter from -to cousin of John 2nd Duke of Argyll.

1740 GD 189/2/172

Jottings [in Argyll's hand] of charges for mason work.

1675 GD 90/2/100

SCOTTISH NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY

'Country Life', March 13th 1909 - article and photographs

'Country Life', Dec. 5th 1947 - article and photographs