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Terregles House
Country House (18th Century)
Site Name Terregles House
Classification Country House (18th Century)
Canmore ID 211952
Site Number NX97NW 83
NGR NX 93385 77802
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/211952
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Terregles (Kirkcudbrightshire)
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Nithsdale
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX97NW 83.00 93385 77802
NX97NW 83.01 93155 77637 Terregles House, Stables
NX97NW 83.02 93611 77176 Terregles House, Lodge
NX97NW 83.03 93259 77864 Terregles House, Fountain
NX97NW 83.04 93321 77773 Terregles House, Bridge
ARCHITECT: Sir Robert Smirke
Gutted c1956
Demolished c1964
EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
Plans
Original plans at Traquair House, Peeblesshire
EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
Christie's, Scotland
Printed Books Auction, Thursday 7 June 1990, Sale Catalogue entry:
Lot 236 Maxwells of Terregles,
A collection of eighteen account books, including estate rental 1758-76, 1719-26 and 1820-27, lease and tack 1757-1832, estate ledge 1820-26 and 1827-1900, charge and discharge 1759-81, 1857-93, seredent 1757-72, 1772-1818, copy letters 1757-76, leases 1820-42 and rental of Caravrock, also two other ledgers, mainly reserve sheet or half calf, folio.
Note. The volume of copy letters contains a large correspondence from John Syme, writer to the Privy Seal, to the Lord of Nithsdale and others, also included in the account are references to the building of hte new house of Terregles in 1788-89 (18)
£1000/1,500
Photographic Survey (1954)
Photographic survey by the Scottish National Buildings Record in 1954.
