Great King Street, General. Photographic copy of plan profile and elevation of typical end pavilion and house of Great King Street (possibly No 82, 84 and 86 Great King Street). Scale: 1:4"

Description Great King Street, General. Photographic copy of plan profile and elevation of typical end pavilion and house of Great King Street (possibly No 82, 84 and 86 Great King Street). Scale: 1:4"

Date 4/1966

Collection General Collection

Catalogue Number D 33247 P

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copy of EDD 100/3

Copies SC 502941

Scope and Content Drawing of the front elevation of a typical end pavilion and house, Great King Street, Edinburgh Great King Street, designed by Robert Reid in 1804 as the grand central avenue of the northern New Town, links Royal Circus and Drummond Place, which enclose it at either end. Feuing began in 1812, and was completed 1814-23. The end pavilion, with a central chimney and semicircular attic window, has four Ionic pilasters running between the first and second floors. Like the central block of the terrace, it was built as double and single flats. All the architectural emphasis of the terrace was in the end pavilions, which were built on a grand scale. Much of the effect comes from the semicircular central windows on the attic floor. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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