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Desk Based Assessment
Date 1 May 2014 - 1 July 2014
Event ID 1003161
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1003161
Riccarton House within an enclosed designed landscape setting is first
depicted on Roy’s Military Survey Map (1747-55). On this the house is
shown along with several ancillary buildings set within a tree bounded
enclosure and there is what appears to be a formally laid out garden to
the north-west of the house.
A later c. 1775 map ‘Sketch of the Estate of Riccarton’ (anon) held by the University Archive, depicts in more detail the house set within a square enclosure, the interior of which is divided into two parts by a west to east avenue; the land surrounding the house sub-divided into a number of regular rectangular fields.
The designed landscape was surveyed in 2008 for City of Edinburgh
Council and is recorded in an archive of non-Inventoried Gardens and
Designed Landscapes (McGowan 2008).
Information from George Mudie (CFA Archaeology Ltd) July 2014. OASIS ID: cfaarcha1-215625
W Roy 1747-1755, Anon c.1775, P McGowan 2008
