16 Abercromby Place Detail of balconies
SC 502833
Description 16 Abercromby Place Detail of balconies
Catalogue Number SC 502833
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 3462
Scope and Content No 16 Abercromby Place, Edinburgh Abercromby Place, the continuation of Heriot Row, formed the southern edge of the northern New Town. Designed by Robert Reid in 1805, it was the first street in Edinburgh to be built on a curve. Building began in 1814 and was almost completed by 1819. No 16 is a typical three-storeyed house in the crescent. The ground floor is rusticated, and the first-floor drawing-room windows, each with a balconet, are elongated to emphasise their importance. The lamp standard would have originally held an oil lamp. In 1819, the New Town was lit by iron lamp standards, attached to street railings, that carried oil lamps usually burning whale oil. By 1826 most of the New Town streets were gas-lit, the first gas lamp standards being of a very similar design. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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