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Description: | Robert Burns was born in Alloway, on 25th. January 1759 in this small thatched cottage which was built by his father William Burnes. Robert took to rhyming at the age of 15 while toiling on his fathers farm and left a legacy of songs, poems and letters to become Scotland's greatest poet.
The plan was drawn by T. McGill Cassels, LRIBA, Ayr a local architect, to show how the Cottage would look when the extensions were removed and the Cottage had been restored by the Trustees to a condition closer to that pertaining in Burns's day.
This framed plan is of Burns Cottage as it was restored in 1889, after it was acquired from the Incorporation of Shoemakers of Ayr by the Burns Monument Trustees. The slate roofed annex which had contained a public house, a hall for functions and landlord's accommodation was removed. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1898-01-01 - 1898-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Framed plan of Burns Cottage after resto | Go to resource |
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