Architecture Notes

Event ID 792617

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NT27NE 4 27091 76423

(NT 27091 76423) Lamb's House (NR)

OS 25"map, (1971)

Lamb's House is a merchant's house of late 16th or early 17th century date (National Trust 1959). Both residence and ware-house were contained within this five-storey building of exceptional architectural quality. It was extensively remodelled internally and the windows enlarged in the 18th century; ruinous by 1937, restored in 1938 by the Marquis of Bute, whose son presented it to the National Trust in 1958, when further restoration took place.

The house is commonly identified as that of Andro Lamb, visited by Mary Queen of Scots after landing at Leith in 1561, but this is discounted by the RCAHMS, who assign it a date of erection in the second decade of the 17th century.

RCAHMS 1951; National Trust of Scotland 1959.

Lamb's House is as described and in good condition. It is now in use as an old peoples Welfare Centre.

Visited by OS (B S) 27 November 1975.

Edinburgh, Water's Close.

NMRS/ Simpson and Brown photographs.

Box 1, album no 3 - general exterior views, including Lamb's House, 1981.

Box 2, album no 23 - landscape.