Basic Site Details Name: | Cullen House and estate buildings | Town, district or village: | Cullen | City or county: | Banffshire | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | | Grid ref: | | Notes: | | Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes | | Country House | | | | Bridge | | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 1709 | | Plans drawn up | Designs - not executed | | 1743 | | Build/construction | Bridge over ravine adjoining house. | | 1767 | 1769 | Addition | Minor works | | 1777 | 1778 | Alterations and additions | Internal alterations including large bow window on south front for 4th Earl's drawing room | | c. 1780 | | Plans drawn up | Not executed | | 1788 | | Plans drawn up | Plans drawn up for remodelling in the Saxon style. Designed walled garden. | | 1789 | | Build/construction | Small part of Thomas White's landscape design created | | 1858 | 1861 | | Additions and restoration by Bryce | | 1913 | | | Restoration | | 1964 | | Alterations and additions | Alterations - Consultancy | | 1982 | 1985 | Alteration/conversion | Conversion into 14 individual houses | | 1985 | 1986 | Restoration | Restoration of 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 McGill | | F | 1709 | | Designs - in McGill's hand and endorsed 'Messrs Smith & McGill's 3rd design of Cullen House'. | | James Smith | | G | 1709 | | Designs - in McGill's hand and endorsed 'Mrs Smith & McGill's 3rd design of Cullen house' | | William Adam | | B | 1743 | | Bridge over ravine adjoining house. | | James Adam | | C | 1767 | 1769 | Minor works including broad staircase - in conjunction with brother John. Also Ionic entrance gateway design on his own. | | John Adam | | C | 1767 | 1769 | Minor works including broad staircase. In conjunction with brother James. | | John Baxter | | E | 1777 | 1778 | Internal alterations including large bow window on south front for 4th Earl's drawing room | | Robert Adam | | G | c. 1780 | | Was commissioned to produce designs for new house - not executed | | James Playfair | | K | 1788 | | Plans drawn up for remodelling 'in the Saxon style' (not executed) but walled garden designed by Playfair. | | Thomas White | | M | 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 | 1913 | | Restoration - as clerk of works | | Antony Curtiss Wolffe | | D | 1964 | | Alterations - Consultancy | | Kit Martin | | J | 1982 | 1985 | Restoration and division into flats | | Douglas Forrest | | K | 1982 | 1985 | Kit Martin acquired the house in 1982 and with Douglas Forrest converted it into 14 individual houses. | | Douglas Forrest | | L | 1985 | 1986 | Restoration of gates |
ClientsThe following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | Name | Notes | | Reidhaven, Lord | Client for 1960s work | | Seafield, 2nd Earl of | Client for William Adam 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 | | Seafield, 7th Earl of | |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | 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 | 1859 | | | | 697 | | RSA | 1860 | | | | 614 | | 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 |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | | Builder | 27 May 1876 | XXXIV | | Obituary of David Bryce | | Country Life | 15 September 1906 | | | | | Country Life | 23 January 1948 | | | |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes | | Dumfries Archives | Antony Curtiss Wolffe drawings (handlist in RCAHMS) | | File 1964, no 14/64 | | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 2219 | | | Information by email | Research and biography by Louise Boreham and Neil Brown | | Sent October 2007 | | 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) | Gifts and deposits | GD 248/800/4 | John Baxter work | | National Archives of Scotland (formerly SRO) | Register House Plans | | Incomplete set of working drawings, RHP 12891-12911 | | National Archives of Scotland (formerly SRO) | Register House Plans | RHP 2541 | | | National Library of Scotland | Manuscript Collection | MS 14551, f.89 | letter from Adam to Lord Tweeddale, 4 June 1743 | | National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS | NMRS Library | | Perspective of remodelled wing |
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