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Architecture Notes
Event ID 775933
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/775933
NT27SW 142.00 21126 73045
NT27SW 142.01 21312 72975 112-114 Corstorphine Road
Built in 1780 for Francis Scott, second son of the laird of Harden. Five-bay main block of smooth ashlar on a basement, a divided stair leading up to the door. Three-bay wings of one main storey, by William Sibbald, c. 1799. In 1984, the house was being adapted as part of the Murrayfield Independent Hospital by Gordon and Latimer.
OSA 1795; NSA 1845; RCAHMS 1951; J Gifford, C McWilliam and D Walker 1984.
From engraving in Archibald Craig scrapbooks (AL4/64/6):
'The seat of Sir Robert Dundas Baronet, about 3 miles North West of Edinburgh, near the village of Corstorphine, it stands upon a rising ground and commands one of the most magnificent views in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, The Prospect abounds also with objects of curiosity, both to the antiquary, the philosopher, and the man of taste, near it is Belmont House Ravelstone, and Craig Crook Castle. Ravelstone is the seat of Sir Alexander Keith, Knight Marshall of Scotland, Craig Crook Castle, an ancient mansion is at present the residence of Francis Jeffrey Esquire Advocate'.
