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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
BALBARDIE HOUSE Balbardie House
Balbardie House
Balbardie House
Balbardie House
Estate Map
Mr. James Hosie resident
Mr. J. Finlay Provost
Forrests Co. [County] map.
009 [Situation] About ¼ mile NNW [North North West] of the Parish Church.
A large & handsomely built mansion, standing N. [North] of the town in a park well stocked with trees - the house is composed of a centre three stories high and two wings two stories, and the W. [West] end, surrounding two small Court Yards is only one storey - the front faces to the N. [North] and the entrance by a porch surmounted by a neatly executed stone ballustrade above which in front of the main building rise four Corinthian pillars & four pillasters, the whole front is handsomely decorated by festoons of flowers &c cut in relief together with the Arms of the family of Marjoribanks, whose property is was but now in the hands of trustees. It is getting fast out of repair & the Office, a little West of the house are ruinous and all the walks &c formerly [in] the large garden adjoining the Offices are ploughed up & vegetables & Cattle food grown in it. Mr. James Hosie, resident

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