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Pirn House
House (19th Century), Mill (Medieval)(Possible)
Site Name Pirn House
Classification House (19th Century), Mill (Medieval)(Possible)
Canmore ID 100227
Site Number NT44NW 29
NGR NT 4418 4759
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/100227
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Stow
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Ettrick And Lauderdale
- Former County Midlothian
NT44NW 29 4418 4759
Not to be confused with the site of Pirn House, NT33NW 20
NMRS REFERENCE:
Scottish Record Office
Plaster work done at Pirn.
Receipted account for work done by James Pirie for Alexander Horsbrugh.
1782 GD 178/Box 5
Estimate of £7.10.0 from Alexander Wilkie for reharling the front of the house
and repairing the harling of back wall gables and chimney tops.
1820 GD 178/Box 5
Plaster work done at Pirn.
Receipted account from Alexander Morison, plasterer at Edinburgh for work done for John Horsburgh.
1761-62 GD 178/Box 4
Wright work at Pirn.
Rooms are refloored, roof relathed and moulds prepared for the plasterer.
Receipted account for £158.10.5 1/2 from George Pirie to John Horsburgh.
1761 GD 178/Box 4
Wright work done at Pirn.
Measurement and account for work done for Alexander Horsburgh at Horsburgh.
The account amounts to £82.15.0.
1782 GD 178/Box 4
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding building.
Information from Scottish Borders Council.
Sbc Note
First 'the landis of pyrn' 1489-90 (ADA) possible mill 1542 (Rentale S.A)
Information from Scottish Borders Council Historic Environment Record
(n.d.)
