Old Photograph Harryburn House Scotland

Old photograph of Harryburn House by Lauder in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. Harryburn is a fine country house built in 1827 for John Romanes, banker and town clerk of Lauder, to designs by John Smith, born 1782, died 1864. Smith had continued the business of his father, also John, a mason and builder in Darnick, near Melrose, after the latter's death, along with his younger brother Thomas. The Smiths were enterprising, and whilst their practice consisted mainly of designing and enlarging small houses, rural churches, schools and manses, they were also employed by a number of Borders landowners, including, most notably, Sir Walter Scott, who commissioned them to build his home, Abbotsford, to the designs of William Atkinson.



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