Architecture Notes

Event ID 773179

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NMRS REFERENCE:

Edinburgh, 95-115 Nicolson Street which was Category C Listed was demolished in 1965/66. Information from Demolitions catalogue held in RCAHMS library.

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Scottish Record Office

"the New Bridg is condemn'd as a crack'd Edifice - & must stand like an Old take till The Magistrates, Undertakers, & Fewers of North Edinr dance a threesome Reel thro' the Parly House - so Land in Nicolson Street will rise in Value - Lady Di (Middleton) like Provident house Wife has lay'd out 110 last Week in Purchase of 46ft by 120 to preserve air & Prespect for the new Dining Room & by the time your Lo settles & Marrys (Ld D. is now 19 and at Oxford) a Town House in the Montpellier of Edinr she expects to double the sum from Lady Deskfoord.."

(Seafield) GD248/565/83

(Ref. in same letter to the trial of Campbell, who shot Ld Eglintoun on the sands (Musselburgh??))

Scottish Record Office

RHP 5587 1762 - Plan of Lady Nicolson's Park

RHP 6003 1801 - Plan of property

RHP 6004 1801 - elevation of roofs of bakehouse

Reference in NMRS Historical File to "Nicolson Street & Column"

Alhambra Theatre - Architect: David McGibbon - 1862 burnt 1875

REFERENCE:

Edinburgh. House, Nicolson Street

Not completely finished; information from James McPherson, 1769

(Edinburgh Evening Courant, Sept 9, 1769)

Edinburgh. Field called Southfield, adjoining Nicolson Street

Feu-plan to be shown by James Macpherson, architect and mason, 1771

(Edinburgh Evening Courant, Feb 4, 1771)

Robert Burn

Edinburgh. Schoolhouse for Edinburgh Lancastrian School Society

Nicolson Street

Advertisement for tenders, 1812

(Edinburgh Evening Courant, July 13, 1812)