Architecture Notes
Event ID 771761
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
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NT27SE 451.00 25776 73369
NT27SE 451.01 2579 7336 James Watt Statue
NT27SE 451.02 2572 7340 Watching Brief
Undergoing conversion to Sherriff Court building, 1990.
ARCHITECT: David Cousin 1876
David Rhind 1872-4
John Chesser 1885-6 -reconstruction
E J MacRae 1931-5 -Cowgate Development
R D Henderson 1878 -Medical classrooms
Converted to Crown Office and Sheriff Court House circa 1990.
NMRS Print Room, Inglis Photograph Collection, Acc No 1994/90
Heriot Watt building during construction, photograph 1930's or 40's (E J MacRae)
REFERENCE: NMRS HISTORICAL FILE
4 pages of text giving details of background to development of site at Chambers Street plus one sheet with site plan by Andrew Rollo, 1948 -FILED UNDER "HERIOT-WATT COLLEGE, CHAMBERS STREET"
REFERENCE: HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES
Photographs of buildings, premises, etc:
HWC8/3/1 : 1 volume containing 22 prints of Heriot Watt College in 1900
HWC8/3/2 : 2 mounted prints of Mechanical Engineering Department in Chambers Street building (?) pre-1908
HWC8/3/3 : 2 mounted prints (and 2 copies) of Mechanical Engineering workshop in Chambers Street, pre-1908
HWC8/3/4 : 8 mounted prints and one negative of new Mechanical Engineering laboratories in 1908
HWC8/3/5 : 2 prints of Mechanical Engineering laboratories in 1908 (possibly copies of older (lost) originals?)
HWC8/3/6 : 1 print of munitions workers at work in College in 1916 (with copy of Principal Laurie's description of munitions work in the College)
HWC8/3/7 (GN) : 13 glass negatives of printing department in Chambers Street, pre-1935
HWC8/3/8 (GN) : 1 glass negative of unidentified classroom in Chambers Street building circa 1930
HWC8/3/9 : 2 prints (and one copy) of "Corners in the garden of Heriot-Watt College, October 1934" -the site of the Cowgate block (first extension)
HWC8/3/10 : 8 prints of construction of the Cowgate block circa 1934/5
HWC8/3/11 : 3 prints of demolition and construction on site of Cowgate block in 1934/5
HWC8/3/12 : 2 prints of printing department in Cowgate block circa 1935
HWC8/3/13 : 27 mounted prints of site of second extension, during demolition of 1908 Engineering laboratories soon after completion of first extension circa 1936
HWC8/3/14 (GN) : 7 prints of Cowgate block: 4 of printing department; one of external view; one of stairwell (Cowgate entrance); one unidentified (with 2 glass negatives) in 1930
HWC8/3/15 (GN) : 1 glass negative of gymnasium in Cowgate block circa 1935
HWC8/3/16 (GN) : 6 glass negatives of Library in Chambers Street (now Principal's Room), pre-1938
HWC8/3/17 (GN) : 1 glass negative of exterior of Chambers Street building, possibly 1930
HWC8/3/18 : 3 negatives: one of Electrical Engineering laboratory; 2 of Mechanical (or Electrical) Engineering laboratory, 1930's
HWC8/3/19 : one print (and negative) of Library in second extension circa 1938
HWC8/3/20 : 2 prints of second extension: one of Students' Common Room; one of Physics laboratory, post-1938
HWC8/3/21 : 4 prints (and one copy and 4 negatives): a) Women's Common Room in second extension; b) dining hall in Cowgate block (later altered, when Department of Brewing and Biological Sciences was built above); c) Elementary laboratory, Electrical Engineering, Chambers Street, post-1938. (All later Library, c) now Snack Bar)
HWC8/3/22 : 3 prints of foundations for third extension, 1950's
HWC8/3/23 : 3 prints (and 2 negatives) of Mining Department in Grassmarket, and Beam Engine situated outside, post-1953
HWC8/3/24 : 3 prints (and 2 copies) of Chemistry laboratories in Chambers Street, dates unknown-possibly 1950s or 1960s
HWC8/3/25 : One print of Physics department in Chambers Street showing Mr Stewart Brown, 1960's
HWC8/3/26 : One print of second extension to Mechanical Engineering department in Chambers Street showing Mr J Landon, 1960's
HWC8/3/27 : One print of Pharmacy department in Grassmarket, 1960's
HWC8/3/28 : One print of Computer Science department in Chambers Street showing Mr A Balfour, 1960's
HWC8/3/29 : 2 prints of Optics (Physics Department) in Chambers Street, 1960's
HWC8/3/30 : 3 prints of Brewing and Biological Sciences department in Cowgate block circa 1963
HWC8/3/31 : One print (and one copy) and one negative of a drawing of Brown Square House circa 1960
HWC8/3/32 : Collection of negatives of Library at various stages, used for exhibition material (mostly copies of prints in Nos HWC8/3/13, 14, 16 and 26 above)
[Handwritten note on photocopied catalogue slip to say most of the above have been copied and negatives are available if required].
REFERENCE: HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY ARCHIVE
Paintings, drawings, etc of buildings, grounds, etc:
HWC8/4/1 : Artist's impression of first extension (Cowgate block), signed "A.R.", 12 January 1933
HWC8/4/2 : Artist's impression of Chambers Street with first-third extensions (view from above), signed "A.R.", 19 December 1934
REFERENCE: HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY ARCHIVE
Plans, etc of buildings and grounds:
HWC8/5/1 : Scottish Office Provisional Order, 1927: the plans referred to in the schedule to the order; 2 plans showing Chambers Street and Grassmarket proposed developments
HWC8/5/2 : Framed plan of Chambers Street site, showing existing buildings and extension work in progress and proposed, October 1929
HWC8/5/3 : 14 Architects' plans for second extension in Chambers Street, 1934
HWC8/5/4 : 4 Architects' plans for third extension in Chambers Street, 1937
HWC8/5/5 : 3 design plans for fitments for lithographic machine room, Printing department, 1939
HWC8/5/6 : 4 Architects' floor plans for first-third extensions circa 1950's
HWC8/5/7 : 7 Architects' plans for extension to Pharmacy building in Grassmarket, 1955
HWC8/5/8 : 7 Architects' plans and one preliminary sketch for alterations to entrance hall and re-planning of general administration in Chambers Street building, 1957
HWC8/5/9 : 28 Architects' plans for Grassmarket development (Mountbatten building), 1962-1963
