Archaeology Notes

Event ID 716752

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT37SW 3 3459 7272.

(NT 3459 7272) Tolbooth (NR) (1590)

OS 6" map (1852)

Musselburgh Tolbooth, a long, narrow, 3-storey block, was built c. 1590, and altered in 1773 and 1875-6. The square tower at the W end may be a survival of an earlier tolbooth, destroyed by the Earl of Hertford in 1544. The restorations to the building have robbed it of much of its character.

The Town House, adjoining the E end of the tolbooth at right angles, was built in 1762.

SDD List 1964; RCAHMS 1929, visited 1920

Musselburgh Tolbooth and Town House are as described above. The oldest portion is the tower on the W (save for the steeple, which is modern). The remainder of the building has been considerably restored.

Visited by OS (BS) 14 August 1975