Drummond Place Detail of gutter formed of setts, and irregular paving of pavement
SC 512127
Description Drummond Place Detail of gutter formed of setts, and irregular paving of pavement
Catalogue Number SC 512127
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 4468
Scope and Content 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. The square was built as a series of symmetrical blocks by Robert Reid, with later revisions by Thomas Bonnar, around a central garden. The roadway, built from granite setts, has a gutter, also built from setts, to drain water to the garden-side. Drummond Place has kept, along with Great King Street, its roadway of granite setts, the Georgian railings, and most of the granite and whin paving that forms a pedestrian pavement around the central wooded garden. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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