Publication Account

Date 1981

Event ID 1018067

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018067

Gladstone’s Land is of interest being the only structure left in Edinburgh with a genuine arcade, also once a common feature of the High Street (RCAM, 1951, 74). Remains of sixteenth-seventeenth-and eighteenth-century work abound in this six-storey building (Hurd, 1948, 14). Dormer windows and crow-stepped gables are another feature along with a wooden painted ceiling dating from 1620 (Hurd, 1948, 19). Gladstone's Land, which was restored in 1935.

Information from ‘Historic Edinburgh, Canongate and Leith: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1981).