Basic Site Details Name: | Drummond Castle | City or county: | Perthshire | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | Muthill | Status: | B Listed | Grid ref: | | Notes: | | 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 | | 1629 | 1630 | Alterations and additions | Carried out some work including sundial (dated 1630) | | 1828 | | Design exhibited | Unexecuted proposals for reconstruction as Romanesque castle exhibited at RA | | 1843 | | Design exhibited | Design for restoration by Kennedy | | 1851 | | Design exhibited | Design for Drummind Castle and Garden (Kennedy) | | Before 1868 | | | Restoration of tower house | | 1878 | | | Alterations and remodelling | | After 1887 | Before 1910 | | Additions |
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 | | John Mylne | | E | 1629 | 1630 | Carried out some work including an elaborate facted sundial in the garden (dated 1630) | | (Sir) Charles Barry | | A | 1827 or 1828 | | Unexecuted proposals for reconstruction as Romanesque castle, updating earlier scheme by William Stark. Barry visited the site on September 1827. | | (Sir) Charles Barry | | B | Before 1828(?) | | Probably advised Lewis Kennedy on restoration of formal gardens | | George Penrose Kennedy | | | 1842 | 1853 | Restoration of tower house and additions to mansion house | | George Turnbull Ewing | | C | 1878 | | Alterations and remodelling | | William Finlayson | | D | After 1890 | Before 1910 | Addition - presumably as assistant to G T Ewing | | George Turnbull Ewing | | D | 1899 | | Addition |
ClientsThe following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | Name | Notes | | Burrell, Peter later Lord d'Eresby Willoughby | Restoration of tower house 1842-53 | | d'Eresby, Gilbert 25th Lord Willoughby and Ist Earl of Ancaster | Client for 1899 work | | d'Eresby, Lady Clementina Willoughby | Client for 1878 work | | Perth, 2nd Earl of | Cleint for John Mylne work |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Architects Engineers and Building Trades Directory | 1868 | Architect's, Engineer's and Building Trades' Directory | | London, Wyman | | | Blisset, David | | Veneerer-in-chief to the Nobility: Sir Charles Barry's Country Houses | | Airs, M (ed): The Victorian Great House | p56 | | 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 | p318-320 | | Graves, Algernon | 1905 | The Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of exhibitors and their works… | 1905-6 | London: Graves and Bell | 1843, no 1200; 1851, 249 | | Jamieson, Fiona | 1993 | Drummond Castle Gardens | | | illustration p12 | | MacGibbon and Ross | | Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland | | | vlume v, pp417-8 | | Mylne, R S | | The Master Masons to the Crown of Scotland | | | p114 |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | | Garden History | 2014 | 42.1 | | Bradney, Jane (2014) 'The Gardens of Sir Charles Barry' pp49, 52-53 |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes | | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 18042 | | | RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum | RIBA Nomination Papers | | William Finlayson: L v1 no79 (microfilm reel 29) |
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