Archaeology Notes
Event ID 718894
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NT57NW 20.00 54919 77750.
(NT 54919 77750) Gilmerton House (NAT)
OS 6" map (1968)
Gilmerton is a large mansion which as been altered and added to during the last two centuries.
J Small 1883
A large house, the greater part of which appears no older than the 18th c, of no great architectural merit.
Visited by OS (BS) 15 July 1975
Gilmerton House was built in the 1750s for Sir David Kinloch. John Aitken was the mason. The only later additions are by William Burn in 1828.
C McWilliam 1978