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MHG21384 - Ardmore House

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REFERENCE: SCOTTISH RECORD OFFICE
Building work at Ardmore House.
Account of deals and planks carried to Ardmore to be used for the 1st and 2nd storeys, the cellar and the roof. It amounts to £659.18.0 sterling. In addition details are given of the use to which the wood is put in making the large stair, the garret stair, 15 sash windows, 12 windows in the office houses, 2 chimney pieces in the two master rooms, panelled work and cupboards.
1723-1724 GD/129/Box32/128

Alterations to Ardmore House.
Receipts for mason, joiner, slater and glazier work.
Account for the expense of mason and joiner work and for 3 days spent with "Mr Avery, Eye and Mr Robertson taking the draught and considering what was to be taken down and rebuilt and what additional height and lights to be given to the house, and taking the draught of the office houses".
They include charges for work in the new Laigh house and cellar, and for "hanging chimneys and partitions"
1723-1724 GD/129/Box26/92

The house and immediate grounds with hedge-enclosed fields and presumably estate houses are shown and labelled 'Ardmor' on the Roy Military Survey Map. However, the house is shown immediately adjacent to and on the east side of a river at the head of the Ardmore Creek. This is not where the house is shown on later C19 OS maps, being some 380m to the southeast of its position on Roy. However, the creek may originally been larger than indicated by Roy. <1>

Considerable estate re-organisation had clearly been undertaken in the C19, which also involved the canalisation of water courses into a lade to serve a watermill at a farm complex to the west of the house. This may have also been to move the river away from the house, assuming the position of the house and grounds on Roy is inaccurate. The house is listed in the OS name Books: "A good substantial Farm house with offices & outbuildings attached situated about 1 1/4 mile north of the Established Church. The property of Sir Charles W. A. Ross Bart. [Baronet] Balnagown. <2>

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Grid reference	Centred NH 7055 8624 (28m by 41m)
Map sheet	NH78NW
Geographical Area	ROSS AND CROMARTY
Civil Parish	EDDERTON

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