Architecture Notes

Event ID 793619

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NO12SW 356.00 11786 22395 (Centred on Central Building)

The central building is also known as the central offices or inner entrance and originally had an octagonal tower or chimney (demolished c 1965).

NO12SW 356.01 11759 22405 Gate-house

NO12SW 356.02 11907 22281 Original Perimeter Wall

NO12SW 356.03 117 222 Watching brief; Human Remains

NO12SW 356.04 11700 22447 A Block

NO12SW 356.05 11815 22387 Main Block including A, B, C, D Halls

NO12SW 356.06 11702 22454 H Block

NO12SW 356.07 11724 22438 Governor's House

NO12SW 356.08 11759 22477 Hospital Block (L Block)

NO12SW 356.09 11808 22333 Exercise Yard

Architect: Thomas Brown 1840-44 (conversion of original prison to a General prison)

Robert Reid 1810-12

Robert Mathieson c. 1857 additions

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

S.R.O

Plans: RHP 9269/2, 9270 Thomas Brown engraving, plan and elevation, plans, elevations and sections.

National Library

Reports of the General Board of Directors of Prisons in Scotland 1840-44

Lithographed plans and sections in Appendices to 1840 and 1842 volumes signed Thomas Brown, Charlotte Street, Edinburgh.

Plan of prison existing in 1840.