Edinburgh, Lochend House. View of house.
SC 572965
Description Edinburgh, Lochend House. View of house.
Collection H D Wyllie
Catalogue Number SC 572965
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 3364
Scope and Content Lochend House, Lochend Park, Restalrig, Edinburgh Lochend House, an ancient tower-house built for the Logans of Restalrig, was largely destroyed at the end of the 16th century. Only a picturesque fragment, and an early 19th-century addition built alongside a remnant of the older building, now survives. This, the best view of the house from across the waters of Lochend Loch, shows the remnant of the 16th-century house, built high on a precipitous rock face above the loch, with two windows in the rubble walls, above which rises a massive chimney-stack. The Logans of Restalrig were the old superiors of Leith, and the last baron, Sir Robert, played a notorious part in the Gowrie Conspiracy, an unsuccessful plot in 1600 to assassinate King James VI. The ringleaders were killed in Gowrie House at Perth. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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Attribution: © Courtesy of HES. Photographs by H D Wyllie, photographer, Edinburgh, Scotland
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