Architecture Notes

Event ID 842396

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/842396

NMRS REFERENCE:

Architect: William Burn 1825 (alteration and additions)

NMRS Print Room - Inglis Photograph Collection Acc No 1994/90

2 exterior views

View of Lord Dalhousie's Room 1861 Reproduced in Interior Exhibition Catalogue Plate 32 Hazlit Gooden Fox Exhibition 1981

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Scottish Records Office:

Glazier's account for the House of Dalhousie. [Dalhousie Castle]

James Waugh, Glazier

1684 GD 143/6/2/13

A design drawn by C. J. Richardson, architect, for a piece of furniture for Dalhousie Castle. Included with letters concerning furnishing of the castle and the undertaking of work by Mr Deschamps, a cabinet maker in Madras.

1854 GD45/19/203

Elevations and plans of two lodges (one called Beechhill Lodge) and a double cottage.

ND GD45/25/57

List of sums paid to repairs at Dalhousie Castle.

Mr Turnbull #5,100

Ness & Co. for marble #42

"Paid Dun, Inspector, wages" #163.16

1826-1828 GD45/19/188

Account of George Patterson, architect

For oversight of repair work at the castle.

Cost of the work #951.5.2

Architect's fee #50.

1779 GD45/19/123

Repair work at Dalhousie Castle.

Account from George Patterson, architect, for oversight of work.

The cost of repairs amounted to #1007.

1779 GD45/19/123

'The new building' at Dalhousie Castle.

Discharged accounts (4) for work at the castle.

Mason: James Henderson.

1784-86 GD45/19/124

Additions to Dalhousie Castle. Estimate for #3260. It includes building and finishing the new hall, heightening the entrance, removing the present stair and forming the round tower into two rooms 'with new battlements'. Unsigned.

1815 GD45/19/133/2

4 accounts from James Henderson, mason for work on the new building and other work at the castle.

1784-1786 GD45/19/124

Included among estimates for cottages and a granary,

Estimate for addition to Dalhousie castle at cost #3200

|ncludes:

Taking out present stair

Heightening entrance

Building and finishing new hall

Gothic "railing" in drawing room

Heightening kitchen another storey

Forming round tower into two rooms with new battlement

Finishing rooms next tower

Unsigned.

1815 GD45/19/133/2

Alterations and additions to Dalhousie Castle.

Expense of the work. It amounts to #5,305.16.0

Of this amount #5,100 was paid to Mr Turnbull.

#163.16.0 was paid to Dun, Inspector and #42 to Ness & Co. for marbles.

1826-28 GD45/19/188

[Architect William Burn]

Design for a piece of furniture for Dalhousie Castle.

Drawn by C J Richardson, architect.

The design is included among letters concerning the furnishing of the drawing room and the undertaking of work by Mr Deschamps, a cabinet maker in Madras.

1854 GD45/19/203

Account of the damage done by fire at Dalhousie Castle.

Letter from A R Clark to Lord Dalhousie.

1867 GD45/14/751

Letter from Hon James Andrew Ramsay (Later the 10th Earl of Dalhousie) to the Countess of Dalhousie, his mother.

'Behold me, your dignified representative seated in the centre of your ancestorial basement!'.

Alterations at Dalhousie - 'it now looks like a doocote owing to the holes cut to ventilate the roofs'.

Dalhousie Castle

14 August 1830 N.R.A (S) 2383 Bundle 253/7 Broun-Lindsay (Scottish Records Office)

Letter from Hon James Andrew Ramsay to the Countess of Dalhousie, his mother.

...writer would have stayed longer in Scotland, but this was impossible as Mr Burn sent such a squad of plasters to the castle, and they were employed in the drawing room; 'the ceiling they have put up is old fashioned and accords very well with the character of the house'.

Christ Church, Oxford

19 Oct 1830 N.R.A (S) 2383 Bundle 25/8 (Scottish Records Office)

Sir Walter Scott's Journal:

Dec 23rd 1827

"We drove to Dalhousie Castle where the gallant Earl .... is repairing the castle of his ancestors. The old castle of Dalhousie was mangled by a fellow called, I believe, Douglas, who destroyed, as far as in him lay, its military and baronial character, and roofed it after the fashion of a poorjouse. The architect, Burn, is now restoring and repairing in old taste, and I think creditably to his own feeling. God Bless the roof tree."

Non-Guardianship Sites Plan Collection, DC23380- DC23384, 1951 & 1954.

(Undated) information in NMRS.