Architecture Notes

Event ID 777422

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Sources: Dean of Guild Bundle 1811 4.7.1811

Pet. John Bonnar, spirit dealer

Leith Street. Shop previously built by Samuel Wordsworth, stabler

Plan and elevation encl. Signed William Bryce.

Sources: Dean of Guild Bundle 1812 July-December 24.9.1812

Mr Sandeman, merchant

Counting House, Leith Street

To improve by adding another floor

Elevation. Unsigned - before & after.

Sources: Dean of Guild Bundle 1813 January-June 10.6.1813

Pet. James Sanders, shoemaker

17 Leith Street

Plan, elevation and section of interior alteration. Unsigned.

Sources: Dean of Guild 1.7.1813

William Bruce, upholsterer

Leith Street, corner of Shakespeare Square?

Major alteration - addition of further floor to annex

Elevations, before and after, unsigned

Edinburgh, 16 Leith Terrace, Leith Street.

James Salisbury.

Edinburgh. 16 Leith Terrace. Salisbury was architect and developer.

(Edinburgh Evening Courant, Jan. 30 and Feb 6, 1800).

James Salisbury.

Edinburgh. Leith terrace, Leith Street.

"a new elevation, plain and unornamented" to be shown by Salisbury, 1786.

(Edinburgh Evening Courant, Feb 18, 1786).

NMRS REFERENCE:

Edinburgh Room, Central Library, Edinburgh

Leith Terrace, Leith Street, Edinburgh (unexecuted design), 1785

"the elevation...has been designed by Robert Adams, Esq; architect"

(Edinburgh Evening Courant, Sept 3, 1785)

One newscutting by Brian Crossland