Archaeology Notes

Event ID 713585

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT27SW 8 2248 7214.

Gorgie House (Site of).

Site of much altered 17th century house acquired by John Brown, tenant of Gorgie Mill in 1656, so earliest part of house is presumably prior to that date. It is supposed that a mill was there between 1500 and 1600. Name Book 1855.

Gorgie Manir House: (NT 2248 7214) Earliest mention of a manor house is in 1527 when Sir James Hamilton of Finnart granted a charter of it to his cousin James Hamilton of Schawfield. The house was originally L-shaped, but was considerably added to and altered in the early 18th and 19th centuries... (Smith 1928).

A 17th century house...(RCAHMS 1929).

J Smith 1928; RCAHMS 1929.

No trace of the ancient manor house remains; the old mill stream passes adjacent to the site.

Visited by OS 23 December 1953.

The site is contained in the purlieus of a cinema.

Visited by OS 28 January 1954.