Archaeology Notes

Event ID 713803

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT27SE 316 25430 73529

The four harled lower floors survive from two 17th century tenements. Raised in a reconstruction in 1853 as Short's Observatory (probably by David Rhind). Minor alteration in 1895, 1896, and recently. W door, probably of 1686, brought from Woolmet House, Midlothian in 1955.

RCAHMS 1951; J Gifford, C McWilliam and D Walker 1984.