Basic Site Details Name: | Dunrobin Castle | Town, district or village: | Dunrobin | City or county: | Sutherland | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | A 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 |  | 1766 | | Build/construction(?) | Quadrangular stables (uncertain if actually built. If built they were destroyed by fire in 1790). |  | 1789 | 1790 | Alterations and additions | |  | 1844 | 1851 | | North front and reconstruction |  | 1845 | | | Peter Kerr hired to implement Barry's designs |  | 1852 | | | Walled garden , west wall rebuilding |  | 1915 | | | Restoration of roof after fire |  | 1919 | | | Additional internal reinstatement and remodelling |
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 Adam | Architect | C | 1766 | | Quadrangular stables (uncertain if actually built. If built they were destroyed by fire in 1790) |  | James McLeran | | D | 1789 | 1790 | Large sums of money being paid to 'Mr McLaren and his son' for works at Dunrobin Castle. |  | (Sir) Charles Barry | Architect | A | 1844 | 1848 | North front and reconstruction with William Leslie of Aberdeen as executant, modifying scheme to fit site; formal gardens. Barry did not visit until 1848 when work was complete. |  | William Leslie | Architect | A | 1844 | 1851 | Reconstruction incorporating suggestions from Duke of Sutherland based on Charles Barry' s scheme |  | Peter Keir | Architect | | 1845 | | Was the draughtsman and signed the drawings |  | Peter Kerr | Architect | A | 1845 | | Implemented Barry's designs; perhaps worked for William Leslie |  | William Leslie | Architect | | 1852 | | Walled garden, west wall rebuilding |  | (Sir) Robert Stodart Lorimer | Architect | B | 1915 | 1919 | Restoration of roof after fire. Also additional internal reinstatement and remodelling. |  | James Grieve | Architect, Clerk of Works | B | 1915 | 1919 | Restoration after fire. Also additional internal reinstatement and remodelling - as clerk of works to Lorimer |
ClientsThe following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | Name | Notes |  | Sutherland, 17th Earl of | Client for John Adam work |  | Sutherland, Countess | Client for 1789-1790 work |  | Sutherland, Duke of | For all phases |
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 | pp 64-5 |  | Colvin, Howard | 2008 | A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840 | | London: YUP. 4th edition | |  | Fraser, W | 1894 | The Sutherland Book | | | p470, n2, p471 |  | Gifford, John | 1992 | Highland and Islands (The Buildings of Scotland) | | Penguin Books | pp 574-7 |  | Savage, Peter | 1980 | Lorimer and the Edinburgh Craft Designers | | Edinburgh: Paul Harris Publishing, 1980 (also paperback ed, London & Edinburgh: Steve Savage, 2005) | p 176 |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes |  | Building Chronicle | June 1854 | | | |  | Building Chronicle | July 1854 | | | |  | Country Life | 23 October 2013 | | | |  | Country Life | 30 October 2013 | | | |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes |  | Dunrobin Castle | Plans | | Original drawings in Charter Room (Barry drawings) |  | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 7044 | |  | Information by email | Research and biography by Louise Boreham and Neil Brown | | Sent October 2007 |  | National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS | Lorimer and Matthew Collection | | LOR D/14 |  | National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS | NMRS Manuscripts | | MS LOR/73/60, 61 Notes on interior details by Lorimer, specifications for electrical work etc |  | National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS | NMRS Photographic Archive | | Copies of Dunrobin drawings - SUD 77/52-61 Also Lorimer drawings SUD 77/11, 77/73 |  | RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum | RIBA Drawings Collection | | Ba Fam/1/9/1 |
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