Architecture Notes

Event ID 774061

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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Scott's or Scot's Close is recorded in 1707 and shown on Edgar 1742. It was evidently named for Thomas Scott, listed in 1635 as an occupier owning a dyeworks and well, who may have been the Thomas Scott, burgess and brewer, mentioned in titles of 1707 as a former owner, along with Charles Scott of Bavelaw, of the "Moffat Well" brewery in the close. (from Stuart Harris, "Place Names of Edinburgh", 1996, page 558)