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Spylaw House, Bridge Road, Colinton. View from North East showing driveway to house.
SC 544640
Description Spylaw House, Bridge Road, Colinton. View from North East showing driveway to house.
Catalogue Number SC 544640
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 6905
Scope and Content 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 Georgian house, unusual because the centrepiece takes up nearly the whole width of the front, was built on to the rear wing of a house dating from c.1650. It has two storeys and basement, and a magnificent double-curved external stair. James Gillespie was a new type of laird, and one of the first 'commuters'. A successful businessman, he lived in Edinburgh in the winter, and at Spylaw in the summer, travelling back and forth by coach to his tobacco business in the High Street. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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