Architecture Notes

Event ID 776679

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NT27NW 1.00 20294 76097

See Architecture Catalogue, as drawings still to be entered into database.

ARCHITECT: William Burn, 1827 - alterations and additions

W. H. Playfair, 1845 - gabled porches

OWNER: Edinburgh Corporation

NMRS REFERENCE:

Printroom:

W Schomberg Scott Photograph Collection Acc.no. 1997/39

View looking up to turrets

Inglis Photograph Collection Acc.no.1994/90

Exterior: entrance front, oblique view of entrance front, 2 prints (different formats).

Interior: drawing room, 2 prints. dining room, 2 identical prints and 1 with different table cover (see: C 12772).

REFERENCE:

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND

MS 9704 Letters from W H Playfair re building and gardens and progress of do 1844 etc.

Nattees Drawings, Vol. IV, nos 40 - 42 - 3 drawings

D3/E (P)

NMRS Miscellaneous

Sir Walter Scott's Journal, December 3rd 1827

"Went with Tom Allen to see his building at Lauriston where he has displayed good taste - supporting instead of tearing down and destroying the old chateau which once belonged to the famous Mississippi Law. The additions are in very good taste, and will make a comfortable house. Mr Burn, architect, would feign have had the old house pulled down, which I wonder at in him, though it would have had the practice of most of his brethren."