21 - 33 Drummond Place View from West along North side of Drummond Place

Description 21 - 33 Drummond Place View from West along North side of Drummond Place

Date 3/1960

Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number ED 5519/17

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 512082

Scope and Content Nos 20-33 on the north side of Drummond Place, Edinburgh Drummond Place, a U-shaped tree-filled square at the east end of Great King Street, was named after the 18th-century Lord Provost of Edinburgh, George Drummond. Built 1806-23, it forms one of the two great balancing squares of the northern New Town. Drummond Place was built as a series of symmetrical blocks by Robert Reid, with later revisions by Thomas Bonnar. Each block has a palace-front façade with giant Ionic pilasters in the centrepiece and semicircular attic windows in the end pavilions. In 1953 Nos 31 became the Edinburgh home of the novelist, Sir Compton Mackenzie (1883-1972), one of the most outstanding Scottish writers of recent years. Sir Compton, author of 'Whisky Galore', lived in a house filled with 12,000 books. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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