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Publication Account
Date 1951
Event ID 1095645
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1095645
No. 9 Outlook Tower, 549 Castle Hill
The four rubble-built lower storeys of this tenement, standing on the N side of the Castle Hill immediately opposite Boswell’s Court (RCAHMS 1952, No. 11 [NT27SE 317]) date from the 17th century, while the upper part has been rebuilt and extended. The ground floor includes a through passage, Skinner’s Close, and still shows something of the original arrangements with some 18th century alteration, but it is now used only for storage. The floors above have been entirely remodelled and modernised.
Thomas Hamilton, the architect of the High Street, included this building in his record of the W end of the Old Town and his drawing (Old Edin. Club, xii, p.249) shows the façade before alteration. This drawing indicates that the present frontage was originally occupied by two tenements, the E one having at the SE corner a staircase, part of which still survives.
RCAHMS 1951
