Buildings

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Cullen House and estate buildings

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Notes

The building is classified under the following categories:

Class classic

Classification	Original Classification	Notes
Country House	Not Known
Bridge	Not Known

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The following date-based events are associated with this building:

event classic

Event Type	From	To	Notes
Plans drawn up	1709		Designs - not executed
Build/construction	1743		Bridge over ravine adjoining house.
Addition	1767	1769	Minor works
Alterations and additions	1777	1778	Internal alterations including large bow window on south front for 4th Earl\'s drawing room
Plans drawn up	1780c		Not executed
Plans drawn up	1788		Plans drawn up for remodelling in the Saxon style. Designed walled garden.
Build/construction	1789		Small part of Thomas White\'s landscape design created
	1858	1861	Additions and restoration by Bryce
	1913		Restoration
Alterations and additions	1964		Alterations - Consultancy
Alteration/conversion	1982	1985	Conversion into 14 individual houses
Restoration	1985	1986	Restoration of gates

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The 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.

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Person	Partnership Group	Role	From	To	Notes
Alexander McGill	F	Architect	1709		Designs - in McGill\'s hand and endorsed \'Messrs Smith & McGill\'s 3rd design of Cullen House\'.
James Smith	G	Architect	1709		Designs - in McGill\'s hand and endorsed \'Mrs Smith & McGill\'s 3rd design of Cullen house\'
William Adam	B	Architect	1743		Bridge over ravine adjoining house.
James Adam	C	Architect	1767	1769	Minor works including broad staircase - in conjunction with brother John. Also Ionic entrance gateway design on his own.
John Adam	C	Architect	1767	1769	Minor works including broad staircase. In conjunction with brother James.
John Baxter	E	Architect	1777	1778	Internal alterations including large bow window on south front for 4th Earl\'s drawing room
Robert Adam	G	Architect	1780C		Was commissioned to produce designs for new house - not executed
James Playfair	K	Architect	1788		Plans drawn up for remodelling \'in the Saxon style\' (not executed) but walled garden designed by Playfair.
Thomas White	M	Garden designer	1789		Landscape design - only a small part executed.
David Bryce			1858	1861	Additions and restoration
(Sir) Robert Stodart Lorimer	A		1913		Restoration
James Grieve	A	Clerk of Works	1913		Restoration - as clerk of works
Antony Curtiss Wolffe	D	Architect	1964		Alterations - Consultancy
Douglas Forrest	K	Architect	1982	1985	Kit Martin acquired the house in 1982 and with Douglas Forrest converted it into 14 individual houses.
Kit Martin	J	Architect	1982	1985	Restoration and division into flats

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The following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design:

client classic

Name	Notes
Seafield, 7th Earl of
Seafield, 2nd Earl of	Client for William Adam work
Reidhaven, Lord	Client for 1960s work
Seafield, 3rd Earl of	Client for John and James Adam work
Seafield, 4th Earl of	Client for John Baxter work and for unexecuted design by Robert Adam

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The following books contain references to this building:

bio ref classic

Author	Year	Title	Part	Publisher	Notes
Colvin, Howard	2008	A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840		London: YUP. 4th edition
Forman, Sheila	1954	Cullen	June 1954	Scotland's Magazine, June 1954
Groome, Francis H		Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-85)		Edinburgh, London & Glasgow: Thomas C Jack, Grange Publishing Works
RSA	1860				614
RSA	1859				697
Walker, David W and Woodworth, Matthew	2015	The Buildings of Scotland: Aberdeenshire North and Moray		Yale University Press	pp447, 448, 522-523, 525, 526-7

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The following periodicals contain references to this building:

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Periodical Name	Date	Edition	Notes
Builder	1876/05/27	XXXIV	Obituary of David Bryce
Country Life	1948/01/23
Country Life	1906/09/15

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The following archives hold material relating to this building:

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Source	Name	Item Name	Notes
National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS	NMRS Library		Perspective of remodelled wing
National Archives of Scotland (formerly SRO)	Gifts and deposits	GD 248 /1341-44	Accounts and Estate Books, Seafield Papers, , GD 248/1589; GD 248/982/1 (the latter references to designs by James in letters from John Adam to Lord Seafield.
National Archives of Scotland (formerly SRO)	Register House Plans		Incomplete set of working drawings, RHP 12891-12911
Information by email	Research and biography by Louise Boreham and Neil Brown		Sent October 2007
National Archives of Scotland (formerly SRO)	Register House Plans	RHP 2541
Dumfries Archives	Antony Curtiss Wolffe drawings (handlist in RCAHMS)		File 1964, no 14/64
National Library of Scotland	Manuscript Collection	MS 14551, f.89	letter from Adam to Lord Tweeddale, 4 June 1743
Historic Environment Scotland	Listed Buildings Register	2219
National Archives of Scotland (formerly SRO)	Gifts and deposits	GD 248/800/4	John Baxter work

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