Archaeology Notes

Event ID 650018

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT36NW 160 32745 66996

Location formerly cited as NT 328 670.

(Location cited as NT 327 671). Water tower, built 1897. An octagonal brick tower, with a louvered wooden top.

J R Hume 1976.

Water tower, Eskbank Road. Polychrome, brick, octagonal, with lucarned tank-house.

C E McWilliam 1978.

An octagonal polychrome brick water tower constructed in 1879 for the Dalkeith town council by James Leslie, Engineer of the Edinburgh Water Company. It was converted into a dwelling in the mid-1980s, and by the time of the RCAHMS photographic survey in 2001, had been adapted to accommodate 'The Water Tower Restaurant' by award-winning chef, Gerry Goldwyre.

Information from RCAHMS (MKO), 2001.

This structure is depicted, but not noted, on the current OS (GIS) AIB.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 April 2006.