Architecture Notes

Event ID 845979

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/845979

NY38NE 31.00 35634 85340 and 35685 85390

NY38NE 31.01 NY35593 85239 Duchess Bridge (River Esk)

NY38NE 31.02 NY 36170 85151 All Saints Scottish Episcopal Church

NY38NE 31.03 NY 35686 85388 NE wing

NY38NE 31.04 NY 36206 85119 South Lodge (East Lodge)

For Ewes Bridge (NY 36302 85031) carrying approach from the E, see NY38NE 32.

NMRS REFERENCE

Demolished 1953 - original owner the Duke of Buccleuch.

Architect: James Playfair 1787 and later. House was partly burnt 1793.

Gamekeeper's house: William Burn, 1837

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

SCOTTISH RECORD OFFICE

Plans. RHP 9686 1876

Gamekeeper's house, plans. RHP 9714/42-44 1837

Duke of Buccleuch (at Naples, Rome and Venice) commenting on Mr [James] Playfair's plan for Langholm Lodge and progress in building it.

8 January 1787 GD 224/655/61

27 March 1787 GD 224/655/62

22 April 1787 GD 224/655/63

Letters referring to fire at Langholm Lodge.

31 December 1788 GD 224/655/70

5 January 1789 GD 224/655/71

Duke of Buccleuch's reference to Mr Playfair [architect] as 'often very confused in his accounts though I believe an honest man at bottom ...'

22 June 1791 GD 224/655/80.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

The main block of the mansion house designed by James Playfair for the Third Duke of Buccleuch in 1786-7, and rebuilt c. 1793 after a fire, was demolished in 1953. Palyfair's lateral wings survive, each like a small country house in its own right. The front of the N [NE] wing is relatively unaltered; it has a piend-roofed centre of two storeys and three bays with a single-storey two-bay wing at each end. The wings of the S [SW} wing were raised to two storeys in the late 19th century.

J Gifford 1996.

Langholm Lodge, 1786-7, James Playfair. Classical Buccleuch mansion, rebuilt 1790 after a fire. Central section demolished 1953, leaving two-storey piend-roofed wings as free-standing houses.

J R Hume 2000.