Basic Site Details Name: | Bowhill House | Town, district or village: | Selkirk | City or county: | Selkirkshire | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | A Listed | Grid ref: | | Notes: | | Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes | | Country House | | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 1812 | 1814 | Addition | Centre block of south front. Continued by Atkinson. | | 1813 | 1817 | Addition | | | 1831 | | Addition | | | 1834 | | Build/construction | Drive-carrying bridge at Fauldshope | | c. 1840 | | | Unspecified work | | 1841 | | | Chapel and conservatory by Barry | | 1874 | 1876 | | Completion of Burn's work, including plans for chapel | | 1875 | 1877 | | Chapel in east wing by Bryce, never consecrated and now the Monmouth Room. Burn's work taken over after his death in 1870 | | November 1876 | January 1877 | | Plans dated for chapel, billiard room and smoking room (Macvicar Anderson) |
PeopleDesign and ConstructionThe following individuals or organisations have carried out design/construction work. Where architects or practices worked together, matching letters appear beside their names in the Partnership Group column. | | Name | Role | Partnership Group | From | To | Notes | | William Stark | | H | 1812 | 1814 | Centre block of south front. Continued by William Atkinson. | | William Atkinson | | D | 1813 | 1817 | Additions - continued the Stark work | | William Burn | | A | 1831 | | Enlargement | | John & Thomas Smith | | C | 1834 | | Drive-carrying bridge at Fauldshope | | John Smith | | C | 1834 | | Drive carrying bridge at Fauldshope | | Thomas Smith | | C | 1834 | | Drive-carrying bridge at Fauldshope | | Benjamin Ferrey | | | c. 1840 | | Unspecified work | | (Sir) Charles Barry | | | 1841 | | Chapel and conservatory; proposals for Italianising house with balustraded parapet and urns not carried out. | | John Macvicar Anderson | | | 1874 | 1876 | Completion of Burn's work, including plans for chapel, billiard room and smoking room | | D & J Bryce | | B | 1875 | 1877 | Chapel in east wing, never consecrated and now the Monmouth Room | | David Bryce | | B | 1875 | 1876 | Chapel in east wing, never consecrated and now the Monmouth Room | | John Bryce II (or John Bryce (junior)) | | B | 1875 | 1877 | Chapel in east wing, never consecrated and now the Monmouth Room |
ClientsThe following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | Name | Notes | | Buccleuch, 4th Duke of | Client for William Stark and William Atkinson work | | Buccleuch, 5th Duke of | Client for Burn and other work | | Buccleuch, Duchess of | |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Blisset, David | | Veneerer-in-chief to the Nobility: Sir Charles Barry's Country Houses | | Airs, M (ed): The Victorian Great House | p63 | | Bowhill Guidebook | 1975 | Bowhill Guidebook | | Pilgrim Press | p5 | | Colvin, Howard | 2008 | A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840 | | London: YUP. 4th edition | | | Cornforth, John | 1975 | Bowhill, Selkirkshire | 26 June | Country Life, 26 June 1975 | | | Cruft, Kitty, Dunbar, John and Fawcett, Richard | 2006 | Borders (The Buildings of Scotland) | | New Haven and London: Yale University Press | p131 | | Glendinning, M, MacInnes, R and MacKechnie, A | 1996 | A History of Scottish Architecture | | | p550 | | RCAHMS | | Inventory of Selkirkshire | | | p65-6 | | Strang, Charles Alexander | 1994 | Borders and Berwick: An Illustrated Architectural Guide | | | p218 |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | | Country Life | 5 June 1975 | | | Article by John Cornforth. | | RIBA Transactions | 1837 | | | pp52-60 | | RIBA Transactions | 1870 | | | p125-8. List of works by Burn, compiled by T L Donaldson. |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes | | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 15196 | | | National Archives of Scotland (formerly SRO) | Buccleuch Papers | | Macvicar Anderson drawings | | National Archives of Scotland (formerly SRO) | Gifts and deposits | GD 224/30/15/3 | Letter dated 21 April 1812 and drawing.
| | National Archives of Scotland (formerly SRO) | Gifts and deposits | GD224/655/3 |
| | National Archives of Scotland (formerly SRO) | Gifts and deposits | GD224/669/36 | Accounts of Atkinson - for designs, working drawings etc | | National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS | Drawings Collection | | Plans for Barry's additions | | RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum | RIBA Drawings Collection | | |
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