General view of Rosemount Buildings, Gardner's Crescent, Edinburgh, taken from the north-west.

Description General view of Rosemount Buildings, Gardner's Crescent, Edinburgh, taken from the north-west.

Date 7/8/2014

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

Catalogue Number DP 203759

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content The space between Gardner’s Crescent, Rosemount Works and Grove Street was given over to two notable experiments in social housing. Adjacent to the former railway line, Rosebank Cottages was the second earliest of the Edinburgh ‘Colonies’ developments, built 1854-5. Just to the south is the brick-built courtyard development of Rosemount Buildings, which was built in 1858 by architect William Lambie Moffatt (1807-82). Moffatt, a former pupil of William Burn (1789-1870), made his name building poorhouses in Scotland and the north of England. Rosemount Buildings were built to provide model industrial housing, comprising 96 flats in a square around a private quadrangle. The site was adjacent to the Rosemount Cabinet Works (opened 1857). They shared an industrial aesthetic with the use of bricks of different coloured bricks (polychrome) being used to create a pattern, highlighting certain features on buildings such as window surrounds. This was one of the first brick-construction residential schemes in Edinburgh. The buildings were extensively modernised in 1980 by Roland Wedgewood Associates. Though the industries that employed the residents of Rosebank Cottages and Rosemount Buildings are long gone, these experiments continue to thrive.

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