Detail of window-guards on 20 Moray Place
SC 520276
Description Detail of window-guards on 20 Moray Place
Catalogue Number SC 520276
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 4386
Scope and Content Balconets and window guards, No 20 Moray Place, Edinburgh Moray Place, designed in 1822 by James Gillespie Graham as the huge polygonal showpiece of his new housing development on the Earl of Moray's estate, has been described in the way of private building as 'the most splendid thing in Edinburgh'. This end pavilion has balconets, each the width of an individual window and bearing the anthemion and palmette motif, on the drawing-room floor. Window guards protect the windows on the upper floor. Townhouses in the 1820s had three full-length windows in the front drawing room, each with a balconet or miniature balcony to prevent people from falling through the deep sashes. The nursery windows on the upper floors often had simpler window guards. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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