Liberton House, interior View of former kitchen on ground floor
ED 11442
Description Liberton House, interior View of former kitchen on ground floor
Date 13/9/1978
Catalogue Number ED 11442
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 565166
Scope and Content The former kitchen, Liberton House, Liberton Drive, Liberton, Edinburgh Liberton House lies at the end of an avenue of elm trees on the south side of Liberton Drive. Built c.1600 for the merchant, William Little, it stands on the site of an earlier building, and incorporates features of the tower-house. The original kitchen was in the west range of the house. It has a great segmental-arched fireplace, and a recess in the north wall with a gun loop covering the approach. The beamed ceiling was painted with heraldic decoration by Thomas Bonnar in 1892. Gun-loops, openings in a wall for firearms, were a feature of the fortified tower-house. In Liberton House, they appear in the stair-tower overlooking the principal entrance, and again in the west range, acting almost like a modern burglar alarm. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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