Basic Site Details Name: | Pittencrieff House, Pittencrieff Glen | Town, district or village: | Dunfermline | 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 | | 1600s | | | Parts built | | 1700s | | | Parts built | | 1908 | | | Restoration of old house, reconstructing it as club and museum | | 1945 | | Plans dated | Plans for alterations or survey plans? |
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 | | | 1908 | | Restoration of old house, reconstructing it as club and museum | | James Grant Shearer | | A | 1945 | | Alterations? Survey only? |
ClientsThe following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | Name | Notes | | Dunfermline Carnegie Trust | |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Gifford, John | 1988 | Fife (The Buildings of Scotland) | | | p192 | | Macartney, Mervyn E (ed) | 1913 | Recent English Domestic Architecture | Volume V | London: Architectural Review | pp132-136 | | Pride, Glen L | 1999 | The Kingdom of Fife | 2nd Edition | The Rutland Press | p13 | | RSA | 1912 | | | | 469 | | Savage, Peter | 1980 | Lorimer and the Edinburgh Craft Designers | | Edinburgh: Paul Harris Publishing, 1980 (also paperback ed, London & Edinburgh: Steve Savage, 2005) | p175 | | Weaver, Lawrence | 1914 | Small Country Houses: their repair and enlargement. Forty examples chosen from five centuries | | Country Life Library7 | pp142-149 (Chapter 25) |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes | | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 25968 | | | National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS | Lorimer and Matthew Collection | | LOR D/23 | | National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS | Shearer and Annand Collection | SA 1940/32/1-6 | |
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