View from SW showing SW front
SC 792528
Description View from SW showing SW front
Date 1979
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 792528
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Prestonfield House, No 71 Priestfield Road, Edinburgh, from south-west This view from the south-west, taken in 1979, shows the entrance front of the house, looking across a circular lawn. The Corinthian porch is an early 19th-century addition. Note the curvi-linear gables, a feature of mid- to late 17th-century architecture. This house retains important original interiors, including one with embossed leather wall coverings made in Spain in 1676 for Dick's house in the Lawnmarket. The house has for many years been an hotel, and a bedroom extension was discreetly built at the rear in the mid-1990s. This house was built in the 1680s for Sir James Dick, Lord Provost of Edinburgh to replace a house burned down by students in 1681. It is one of an important group of post-restoration Scottish mansions, and the last to be built before flat Dutch Neo-Classicism became the fashion in Scotland. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference CTH115
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