View from SSW showing SSW front

Description View from SSW showing SSW front

Date 9/7/1970

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 733500

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content 'Lamb's House', No 13 Waters Close, Leith, Edinburgh This building was constructed early in the 17th century, for a merchant, and in a manner common until the late 18th century was both house and warehouse. It may have contained, like contemporary buildings in Edinburgh both accommodation for the owner and flats for rent. This shows the building from the south. There is a central spiral staircase giving access to all the floors. The hoist door in the west gable shows that that part of the building, at least, was used as a warehouse. The architectural treatment is typical of late 16th-early 17th century Scotland. This building was used until the 1930s as a working-class tenement. It was closed as unfit, and lay derelict for a period. The roof was restored in 1937-39 by Neil and Hurd, architects, and it was converted into an old people's centre in 1959-61 by Robert Hurd and Partners, architects. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/29/4

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/733500

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap