Architecture Notes

Event ID 777083

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NMRS REFERENCE:

Clearing House

PLANS:

Dick Peddie & MacKay, Edinburgh reconstruction

Bin 17, Bag 2 Dick Peddie & Walker Todd 1929

EXTERNAL REFERENCE

Scottish Record Office

Petition from T. Council to Treasury. It asks for a grant of the Excise Office and Ground (in St Andrews Sq.) as a new site for the High School.

1823 GD51/5/127/1-2

Excise office and Grounds in St Andrews Square. Plan of area. Articles of Sale. Letters.

members of the New Club express interest in the Sale Articles and Conditions of Sale "All and Whole that piece of ground lying near Multrisshill" cause Town Council to withdraw its offer. They had hoped to acquire it for High School.

1823-1825

Correspondents: Lord Elcho & others

Messrs. Spottiswoode & Robertson, London

Henry W. Vincent, Treasury

Baillie William Blackwood, Edin.

Plans approved Nov 1936 Occupied June 22nd 1942

Architect: Sir William Chambers 1772-77 (house of Sir Laurance Dundas)

James Byers- designs for chimney-pieces 1770 and proposed new house