Basic Site Details Name: | Tinwald House | City or county: | Dumfriesshire | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | | 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 |  | 1738 | 1740 | Build/construction | |  | 1946 | | Destruction/demolition | Destroyed by fire |  | 1948 | | Reconstruction | To a different design |  | 1990 | | Alterations and additions | Entrance door replaced. Interior of house reinstated in appropriate way, repairs and alterations to restore house in manner of William Adam. |
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 |  | William Adam | Architect | B | 1738 | 1740 | |  | John Clerk (Sir) (2nd Baronet) | Architect | C | 1738 | | Advised Charles on design |  | John Garlick Llewlyn Poulson | Architect | A | 1948 | | Reconstruction after fire |  | Simpson & Brown | Architectural practice | A | 1987 | 1992 | Entrance door replaced. Interior of house reinstated in appropriate way, repairs and alterations to restore house in manner of William Adam. |  | Andrew Stewart Brown | Architect, Surveyor | A | 1990 | | Entrance door replaced. Interior of house reinstated in appropriate way, repairs and alterations to restore house in manner of William Adam. |  | James Walter Thorburn Simpson | | A | 1990 | | Entrance door replaced. Interior of house reinstated in appropriate way, repairs and alterations to restore house in manner of William Adam. |
ClientsThe following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | Name | Notes |  | Erskine, Charles | William Adam client |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes |  | Adam, William | 1820 | Vitruvius Scoticus | | | Plates 152-3 |  | Anon | 1743 | Braco Case Petitions and Depositions | | | 23, 24, 28-9 |  | Gifford, John | 1996 | Dumfries and Galloway (The Buildings of Scotland) | | | p552 |  | Simpson & Brown | 2012 | Simpson & Brown Architects:Thirty-five years in practice 1977-2012 | | | |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes |  | National Archives of Scotland (formerly SRO) | Gifts and deposits | GD 18/5008 | |  | National Library of Scotland | Manuscript Collection | 5074, ff 153, 195 | Letters from Adam |
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