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Architecture Notes
Event ID 780342
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/780342
NT27SE 4140 28163 70185
NT26NE 213 23112 69926 Lodge and Gates (Gilmerton Road)
Architect: Robert Adam 1785-87
Design for a house.
Only the rear portion of the house now original Adam.
Sunnyside House, name changed c. 1850 to Kingston Grange.
EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
Edinburgh Room, Public Library, Edinburgh.
Sunnyside, Liberton
Lay-out of grounds, c.1761
"The whole were, about seventeen years ago, laid out with great taste under the direction of Mr John Adam"
(Edinburgh Evening Courant, July 18, 1778)
S.R.O. GD/18/4477
Poem by Susan Clerk with description of party at Sunnyside (N.D.). Describes setting, flower garden, dinner, tea, party breaking up at eight o'clock etc. (I.R.Gow has a photocopy).
