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Spylaw House, Bridge Road, Colinton. View of curved double or perron stair and main entrance doorway on North elevation.
SC 544639
Description Spylaw House, Bridge Road, Colinton. View of curved double or perron stair and main entrance doorway on North elevation.
Date c. 1900 to 1930
Collection Collection of photographs by George Chrystal and Francis Maxwell Chrystal, photographers, Edinburgh,
Catalogue Number SC 544639
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 6904
Scope and Content Detail of external stair at 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. This magnificent double-curved stone stair, with simple elegant wrought-iron railings and handrail, leads up over the basement level to the main doorway in the north front of the house. James Gillespie made a considerable fortune from his snuff mill at Spylaw. 'Wha wad hae thocht it, that noses had bocht it' was one suggestion for a motto to be painted on the side of the carriage that took him to and from his shop in Edinburgh. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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