Cramond Tower and Cramond House View from South West showing tower and section of West front of house
SC 537381
Description Cramond Tower and Cramond House View from South West showing tower and section of West front of house
Catalogue Number SC 537381
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 32986/18
Scope and Content Cramond Tower, Cramond, Edinburgh, from the west wing of Cramond House Cramond Tower, a small tower-house built in the 15th century by the Bishop of Dunkeld as a 'summer palace', became the home of James Inglis, laird of Cramond, in 1622, whose descendants built the nearby Cramond House in the 1680s. The four-storeyed rubble-built tower-house, with its impressive stair turret, was carefully restored for domestic use in 1979 by Robert Hurd and Partners, who added a slated roof and square-paned sashes to the windows on the lower levels. James Inglis, a merchant in Edinburgh, bought Cramond Tower and settled down as the laird of Cramond in 1622. In the 1680s, his successor, John, built himself Cramond House on land nearby as a more modern, fashionable and convenient residence. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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