View from SSE showing ENE and SSE fronts with octagonal turret stair

Description View from SSE showing ENE and SSE fronts with octagonal turret stair

Date 1979

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

Catalogue Number SC 791978

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Haddington House, No 27 Sidegate Street, Haddington, East Lothian, from south-south-east This view from the south-south-east, taken in 1979, shows the garden front of the house, with its stair-tower in the angle. The taller section is the early 17th-century building. The bowed section to the right of the stair tower, and the single-storeyed wing to the left were both added in about 1800. This building was purchased in the 1960s for preservation, at a time when it was threatened with demolition. It was converted in 1969 into the headquarters of the Lamp of the Lothians Collegiate Centre, to designs by W Schomberg Scott. Haddington is the county town of East Lothian, and was, until the coming of the railways, a social as well as economic and administrative centre. It was especially prosperous in the 17th century, when several large houses were built, including this one, which dates in essence from the early 17th century. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CTH83

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