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Spylaw House, Bridge Road, Colinton. View from East showing seventeenth century sections to rear, and eighteenth century additions to front.
SC 544634
Description Spylaw House, Bridge Road, Colinton. View from East showing seventeenth century sections to rear, and eighteenth century additions to front.
Catalogue Number SC 544634
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 16220
Scope and Content The north-east elevation of Spylaw House, Spylaw Park, Colinton, Edinburgh Spylaw House was built in 1773 for James Gillespie, a tobacco merchant in Edinburgh, who owned several snuff mills on the banks of the Water of Leith at Colinton. The house was an addition to a 17th-century mill house which had a snuff mill at the rear. The rear wing of the house (left) is part of the original building, dating from c.1650, with a mill behind and beneath the house. The 'new' house was built as a two-storeyed Georgian addition, providing a new north-facing frontage. James Gillespie's mill at Spylaw produced snuff, ground tobacco which was taken by sniffing it up the nostrils. He made a considerable fortune from his business, most of which he left to a charitable fund for the 'care of old men and women'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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