Basic Site Details Name: | Kinfauns Castle | Town, district or village: | Kinfauns | City or county: | Perthshire | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | | Grid ref: | | Notes: | Walled garden work C listed. | Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes | | Castle | | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 1809 | | Plans drawn up | Landscaping plans drawn up | | 1825 | | Build/construction | Original house and west lodge | | 1902 | 1904 | | Alterations, new stair, redecoration,walled garden, gatepiers, etc (£21,000) | | 1906 | | | Design for new stair exhibited | | 1910 | | | Gardener's house and walled garden | | 1913 | | | Walled garden gateway |
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 | | (Sir) Robert Stodart Lorimer | | | | | Unspecified estate work (date unknown) | | Alexander Nasmyth | | C | 1809 | | Acted as landscape consultant | | (Sir) Robert Smirke | | | 1825 | | Original house and west lodge | | Francis William Deas | | A | 1902 | 1904 | Alterations, new stair, redecoration, walled garden, gatepiers, etc (£21,000) | | Francis William Deas | | B | 1910 | | Walled garden work, gardener's house |
ClientsThe following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | Name | Notes | | Currie, Sir Donald | Client for the alterations by Flockhart when on lease to Currie | | Gray, 14th Lord | Client for Nasmyth landscaping. | | Gray, 15th Lord | Client for Smirke house | | Moray, Earl of (Morton Gray Stuart Gray) | Client for 1902 work |
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ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | APSD | | The Dictionary of Architecture | ed Wyatt Papworth | The Architectural Publication Society (8v 1852-1892) | Smirke work | | Colvin, H M | 1995 | A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840 | 3rd edition | New Haven and London: Yale University Press | Smirke work | | Colvin, Howard | 2008 | A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840 | | London: YUP. 4th edition | | | Gifford, John | 2007 | The Buildings of Scotland: Perth and Kinross | | Yale University Press | p462 | | Gray, A Stuart | 1985 | Edwardian Architecture: A Biographical Dictionary | | | | | Mills, John et al | 1996 | Rosehaugh: a house of its time | | | | | Neale, J P | 1828 | Views of Seats | | | 2nd ser. iv | | Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts | 1906 | | | | 924 | | Savage, Peter | 1980 | Lorimer and the Edinburgh Craft Designers | | Edinburgh: Paul Harris Publishing, 1980 (also paperback ed, London & Edinburgh: Steve Savage, 2005) | p178 |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes | | Earl of Moray, Darnaway | Moray Archives | | Plans for lodge (formerly held at Rockdale Cottage, estate factor's house) | | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 11955 | Castle | | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 13794 | Dairy on home farm | | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 11954 | Walled garden gateway | | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 11962 | West Lodge gatepers (and lodge itself?) | | National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS | Lorimer and Matthew Collection | | LOR K/7 | | RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum | RIBA Drawings Collection | | | | RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum | RIBA Nomination Papers | | Francis William Deas: F v18 p77 no1212 (microfilm reel 12) |
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