Architecture Notes
Event ID 849397
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
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NT84NE 19.00 88550 45690 (New House)
For Ladykirk House (old) and dairy see NT84NE 19.08
NT84NE 19.01 88523 46073 Stables
NT84NE 19.02 88428 46369 Farmsteading
NT84NE 19.03 87472 45457 West Lodge
NT84NE 19.04 88497 46320 North Lodge
NT84NE 19.05 88934 46508 East Lodge
NT84NE 19.06 88687 46369 Hemmel
NT84NE 19.07 c. 884 456 Mausoleum
NT84NE 19.08 88746 45854 Country house (old); dairy
NT84NE 19.09 88408 45658 Gardener's house
NT84NE 19.10 89183 45794 Icehouse
NT84NE 19.11 Cancelled
NMRS REFERENCE
Owner: Major Askew.
Architect (old house): William Elliot 1797
William Burn 1845 (alterations and additions).
Sir Robert Smirke (?)
EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
SCOTTISH RECORD OFFICE
Account of sums expended on the stables.
Architect: George Tattersall.
Masons: Balmer, Smith and Stirling, Smith and Dods, Waddell.
Plasterer: James Johnstone.
£9,072 14s. 4d.
GD413/20 1844-52
Offer to execute mason work of the stables according to plans and specifications.
Mason: Richard Balmer.
Letter. £1,763.
GD413/19 19 April 1845
Account of sums paid for buildings at Ladykirk. They include the mansionhouse, dairy and conservatory. Architects: William Burn [1789-1870] and David Bryce [1803-76].
Masons: Walter Waddell and John Oliver.
Plasterers: Annan and Son.
Marble Work: David Ness.
Conservatory pavement: Minton and Company.
£16, 195.
GD413/20 1844-53
Estimate from Walter Waddell for the new work. 'Schedule of Prices at which the works required for the additions and alterations at Ladykirk Mansionhouse are to be executed and at plain measurements by James Cunningham.'
GD413/19 1844
Estimate for carpenter and joiner work for a gardener's house.
Adam Young to James Cunningham.
Letter. £111 9s. 0d.
GD413/19 19 June 1845
[Adam] Young's estimate for oakwork in the Library.
It includes enriched cornices, a marble chimneypiece and hearth and the finishing and fitting up of the billiard room.
£238 2s. 10d.
GD413/19 1844
Measurement from plans of the proposed alterations and additions to the mansionhouse.
Measurer: Andrew Gibson.
GD413/19 1845
Estimates and accounts for work and materials for the alterations and additions to the mansionhouse, and building the stables and conservatory.
Mason: Richard Balmer.
Builder: John Oliver.
Carpenter and joiner: James Hill.
Carpenter and joiner: Adam Young.
Glazier: Baxter.
Ironwork (for stables): Shotts Iron Company.
GD413/19 1845-47
Building additions and improvements at the mansionhouse.
Contractors: Messrs Waddell, Oliver and Company.
Receipt: £2,453 7s. 6d.
GD413/19 1846
Estimate from James Hill for carpenter and joiner work of billiard room, business room, library and lobbies in the mansionhouse.
Letter. £705.
GD413/19 9 September 1846
Conservatory plans sent so that items may be ordered. David Bryce [1803-76], Architect, has sent the plan with the pattern of tesselated pavement to William Burn so that the paving may be obtained from Minton. A working plan has been sent to Mr Robertson who will order the stone shelves.
Mr Bryce will send a drawing of the stone seat and the pits next week. Letter.
GD413/23 6 September 1849
Criticism of the plans for the conservatory. Letter from William Burn [1789-1870], Architect, to David Bryce [1803-76], Architect. Mr Burn is critical of the accommodation for plunge pits so he returns the designs and sends a second plan.
GD413/23 10 September 1849
Letter accompanying plan for a conservatory and providing additional information.
William Burn [1789-1870], Architect, to Mr Cunninghame.
GD413/23 22 September 1849
Specification for an ice house.
Unsigned.
GD413/24 1849
Account of sums paid for building the riding school.
Architect: H.S. Ridley, London.
Mason: John Smith.
Plasterwork: John Ramage.
£2,764 5s. 1-1/2d.
GD413/20 1850-53
Abstract of accounts for additional work. Stable offices: estimate and additional work. £2,151 0s. 0d. Mansionhouse and conservatory: amount and additional work. £1,452 16s. 8d.
Carpenter and joiner: James Hill.
GD413/21 1850
Specification of work to be executed to the Dairy [David Bryce, Architect].
GD413/24 1851
Painting and decorating of the mansionhouse.
Painters: Lithgow and Purdie.
Account: £572 11s. 1-1/2d.
GD413/21 1855
