View of Canongate Manse, Reid's Court, 95 Canongate, Edinburgh,from SW.

Description View of Canongate Manse, Reid's Court, 95 Canongate, Edinburgh,from SW.

Date 27/5/2014

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number DP 190191

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content This shows Canongate Manse, Reid's Court, 95 Canongate, Edinburgh. Dating from the early 18th century, this two-storeyed, five-bayed Classical former coaching inn and laird's house was built set back from the main street, forming the north side of the courtyard enclosed by Russell House on the east, and formerly tenements, now part of Sir Basil Spence's Canongate housing development of the 1960s on the west side. The manse comprises a large main block, with later 18th-century piended-roof wings on both the east and west sides, stretching south. The whole building is whitewashed with original timber-framed, multi-paned sash and case windows. The building became a manse for the nearby Canongate Kirk in 1951. Prior to this it was in use as a kindergarten for under-privileged children. The building was restored in 1958 by Ian Gordon Lindsay (1906-66) and George Hay (1911-86) including creating separate dwellings within the later wings. Reid's Court takes its name from James Reid, a coachmaker who had land 'opposite Milton's Lodging' (Milton House, where Royal Mile Primary School now stands) during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. A drawing of this property can be seen in the Edinburgh Dean of Guild archives dated 22nd March 1786, when a Mrs Ann Millar of Wakenshaw owned the property, and was looking to extend the existing building. It is also suggested that an Andrew Reid, brewer and magistrate lived here c.1770, but this may refer to Reid's Close just a little further east on the south side of the Canongate.

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