Basic Site Details Name: | Keir House | Town, district or village: | Dunblane | City or county: | Perthshire | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | Dunblane and Lecropt | Status: | A Listed | Grid ref: | | Notes: | Cost of tender for Jenoure work: £2,903. Final cost with amendments to scheme: £8,828. | 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 | | 1820 | | Build/construction | Lodge and gates. | | 1829 | 1834 | Addition | House enlarged by addition of drawing room and gallery | | 1832 | | Build/construction | Factor's House | | 1849 | 1850 | | Extensive alterations, including semi-elliptical bow to east front, port-cochere on north front, new entrance corridor, garden terrace & entrance archway. | | 1863 | | | Porte-cochere heightened from 2 storeys to 3 with French pavilion roof, completing scheme by Alfred Jenoure after disagreement with client Sir William Stirling | | 1899 | 1901 | | New dining room and smoking room and gates of old Lecropt churchyard | | 1904 | | | Garden house | | 1906 | | | Sundial | | 1910 | | | Redecoration of Mrs Stirling's bedroom and sitting room | | After 1911 | Before 1921 | | Alterations to house and estate buildings | | 1912 | | | Chapel |
PeopleDesign and ConstructionClientsThe following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | Name | Notes | | Stirling, Archibald | Client for 1899 work | | Stirling, Archibald | Client for 1820 lodge and gates | | Stirling, General | Client for 1911-21 work |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Colvin, Howard | 2008 | A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840 | | London: YUP. 4th edition | | | Edinburgh Architectural Association | 1907 | Edinburgh Architectural Association Exhibition Catalogue | | Edinburgh | no 422 (work by R R Anderson) | | Historic Scotland Lists | | | | | | | Rowan, Alistair | 1975 | Keir House, Perthshire | 28 August | Country Life | Quotes correspondence formerly at Keir |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | | Country Life | 7 August 1975 | | | Article by A Rowan | | Country Life | 14 August 1975 | | | Article by A Rowan |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes | | Edinburgh University Library | Anderson Collection (Plans and drawings) | | | | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 3935 | House | | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 3936 | | | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 3916 | | | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 3922 | | | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 3969 | | | National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS | Drawings Collection | | Copies of drawings from Keir. Tnis includes copy of signed drawing for lodge and gates. | | RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum | RIBA Nomination Papers | | John Stewart: F no1830 (microfilm reel 15) |
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