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Architecture Notes
Event ID 769130
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/769130
Demolished. Site of Lothian Regional Council headquarters.
Buchanan's or Buchan's Court (or Close) is listed on Ainslie 1781 and 1804 as Buchanan's Close and as Buchan's Close on Kincaid 1784, and the form Court appears in "P.O. Directory" 1826. The name was no doubt connected with Buchanan's Land, burned down in 1771, itself a replacement of the timber-built tenement of the abbot of Cambuskenneth burned down in 1725. Edgar 1742 lists the close as Walter Willies's Close, and Kirkwood 1817 notes it as "formerly Walter Willis's" but any link with a Wills or Willis remains to be traced. A third name was Hunter's Close, likewise obscure, although it may be noted that Williamson's Directory 1780 lists a James Hunter, physician, as resident in nearby Old Bank Close.
(from Stuart Harris, "Place Names of Edinburgh", 1996, page 129)
