General view of no.s 39-43
SC 466253
Description General view of no.s 39-43
Catalogue Number SC 466253
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 4684
Scope and Content Nos 39-43 Castle Street, Edinburgh Nos 39-43 Castle Street, built in 1793 by stone masons, Robert Wright and James McKain, is a double bow-fronted tenement, one of six in the street. The southern of the two main door houses, No 39, was the home of the author Sir Walter Scott from 1802-26. Nos 39-43, the widest and most elaborate of the six similar tenements in the street, has a pedimented Corinthian centre-piece between the rounded bays at either end of the façade. Sir Walter Scott was a lawyer and lived at No 39 when the Law Courts were in session. He did much of his writing in the 'den' or study at the back of the house, starting at five o'clock in the morning in order to write before the Law Courts opened. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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