The house known as Bowerview appears to have first been erected by James Morrison, weaver in Errol, in 1787. Morrison, "Weaver in Dykeside of Megginch", was granted a feu disposition by John Allen of Errol, Esquire dated 19 April 1787.  The Turnpike between Dundee and Perth would be built in the early 1790s and may have necessitated a removal from Dykeside of Megginch, which was near the route of the new road. Dykeside of Megginch seems to have comprised, according to Stobie's 1783 map, several cottages strung out to the south east of the then road, and which would be demolished to make an enclosed park around Megginch castle, surrounded by a thick belt of trees which adjoined the new turnpike toll road. So Bowerview, and possibly its neighbouring houses, was built by occupants of Megginch estate who had seemingly been cleared from their small patches of land and houses during the improvements to the estate coterminous with the new toll road development.

Ann Jack, spouse of a descendant of Morrison, one James Morrison, mason in Errol, sold the "the westmost four rooms in the tenement erected by the deceased James Morison ... with all the building immediately above the said four rooms together with the yard ground lying directly behind the same" to George Bruce, merchant in Errol, in a disposition dated 31 January 1850. 

In a disposition dated 15 June 1855, George Bruce, described as "Clothier, Errol" sold the house to John Bruce, Clothier, London.   

James Morrison may well have erected the house to the east, separated by a pend leading off High Street (visible in the photograph above), at the same time, as part of one tenement of land feued to him by Allen.  In the 1855 disposition, the land disponed by Bruce to Bruce, is described as "being a part of all and whole that piece or parcel of ground with the buildings thereon lately taken down and rebuilt lying on the north side of High Street", bounded to the east by a mutual road of 3 feet betwixt the property formerly of Thomas Morrison, to the south on High Street; west by John Paterson's [possibly the same family of the John Paterson, mason, as who emigrated from Errol to Lorain, Ohio and donated later trophies to Errol curling club], to the north "formerly on a passage between the Town Yards and now by a wall built by John Lee Allen Esquire of Errol". 

In a disposition dated 21 April 1887 [100 years and two days after the feu disposition by Allen to Morrison], the John Bruce, Clothier in London was declared to be deceased, and John Bruce, then Clothier in Perth granted the subjects to Peter Symon and his wife Margaret Watson Bruce or Symon in conjunct fee and liferent  (Notarial Instrument, 21 September 1887, by John Kinmont, solicitor, witnessed by William Goodall, clerk to Thomas Rogers Kinmont, solicitor, Errol, in terms of the Titles to Land Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1868).  In that title Peter Symon is described as "Flesher, Errol".

Exactly which part of the building was taken down and rebuilt by George Bruce between his purchase of the land and buildings on it on 31 January 1850 and his sale of Bowerview on 15 June 1855 is not clear.  Bowerview is of mudwall construction, so it would be interesting if such material was still being used as late as the first half of the 1850s.  Possibly only part of the building, such as the roof (slated) or chimney (brick) was rebuilt, or perhaps it was buildings to the rear or an extension.  The west gable of Bowerview is still believed to be unrendered mudwall, there being a gap between it and the house, built with bricks, to its west (the one owned by John Paterson in 1855).