Basic Site Details Name: | Charleton House | Town, district or village: | Colinsburgh | City or county: | Fife | 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 | | 1815 | 1817 | Addition | Wings added at rear | | 1818 | | Proposed | Unexecuted scheme for remodelling house | | 1832 | | | Extensions including new dining room at east end | | 10 February 1855 | | | Additions of dining room, billiard room and other offices by Bryce - drawings dated | | 1904 | 1906 | | Extensive alterations including new main entrance and interior work. Addition of obervatory - drawings dtaed | | 1907 | | | Improvements and addititions by Mrs Agnes Anstruther, porch | | 1908(?) | | | Siting of road and forecourt gates |
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 | | Alexander Leslie | | D | 1815 | 1817 | Wings added at rear - with Thomas Finlay mason | | Thomas Finlay | | E | 1815 | 1817 | Wings added at rear with Alexander Leslie | | William Burn | | B | 1818 | | Unexecuted scheme by Burn to remodel house. | | William Burn | | A | 1832 | | Extensions including new dining room at east end with John Lessels as clerk of works | | John Lessels | | C | 1832 | | Extensions - Lessels acting as clerk of works for Burn and prepared the sketches | | David Bryce | | | 1855 | | Additions of dining room, billiard room and other offices | | (Sir) Robert Stodart Lorimer | | | 1904 | 1906 | Extensive alterations, including new main entrance and interior work: design for entrance modified later by Mrs Anstruther. Addition of observatory. Also stables | | Agnes Dorothea Anstruther | | | 1907 | | Additions and improvements and modification of Lorimer's designs. | | Reginald Francis Joseph Fairlie | | | 1908(?) | | Siting of road and forecourt gates |
ClientsThe following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | Name | Notes | | Anstruther, Colonel | 1905-1907 work | | Thomson, John Anstruther of Charleton | Burn and Bryce work |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Gifford, John | 1988 | Fife (The Buildings of Scotland) | | | pp125-26 (for Burn work as well) | | Pride, Glen L | 1999 | The Kingdom of Fife | 2nd Edition | The Rutland Press | p173 | | Savage, Peter | 1980 | Lorimer and the Edinburgh Craft Designers | | Edinburgh: Paul Harris Publishing, 1980 (also paperback ed, London & Edinburgh: Steve Savage, 2005) | p174 |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes | | Charleton House, Fife | Plans Collection | | Original drawings and papers (for various phases of work). Also drwings in scrapbook at Charleton. | | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 8581 | | | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 8582 | Entrance court, wall, buildings and gates | | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 8583 | Terraces, steps etc - B listed | | National Archives of Scotland (formerly SRO) | Court of Session records | SC 20/44/3 | pp363-5, 393-414 | | National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS | Lorimer and Matthew Collection | | LOR C/8 . LOR C/46 | | National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS | NMRS Photographic Archive | | Copies of plans from Charleton |
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