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Swanston Cottage. View from West.
SC 544739
Description Swanston Cottage. View from West.
Date 1900 to 1930
Collection Collection of photographs by George Chrystal and Francis Maxwell Chrystal, photographers, Edinburgh,
Catalogue Number SC 544739
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 7022
Scope and Content Swanston Cottage, Swanston, Edinburgh Swanston Cottage, a short distance from the village, was built by the Edinburgh Corporation Water Trust in 1761 as part of their new waterworks scheme. It became the much-loved summer retreat of the author, Robert Louis Stevenson, from 1867 to 1880. The cottage, almost concealed by trees, stands in a large garden at the end of a farm track. It no longer resembles a cottage, having been extended in 1820, when an extra storey was added, and altered again in 1867. Swanston Cottage was originally a small thatched cottage built to provide additional accommodation for the Water Trust after the opening of the Swanston water supply in 1761, which supplied Edinburgh with fresh spring water piped from the Pentland Hills. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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Attribution: © Courtesy of HES (Francis M Chrystal Collection)
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