General view of front elevation.
SC 426588
Description General view of front elevation.
Catalogue Number SC 426588
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 3956
Scope and Content Gladstone's Land, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh Gladstone's Land was built c.1620, incorporating a 16th-century building, for Thomas Gledstanes, merchant and burgess of the city. It is a fine example of a tenement or 'land' with many features characteristic of Scottish architecture of the period. The ground-floor arcades were for shops. The upper floors were separate flats, occupied by different families. Thomas Gledstanes lived with his wife in one of the flats and residents on other floors included a minister, a knight and a merchant. In the 17th century a typical Scottish townhouse had a tall narrow frontage with access to all floors except the ground floor by a turned stone stair, approached by a stair from the pavement. The ground-floor shops kept pigs, feeding them on scraps. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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