World War One Audit of Surviving Remains
Date 11 November 2013
Event ID 966563
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type World War One Audit of Surviving Remains
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/966563
The East Claremont Street drill hall is first depicted on the 1:2500 map of the area surveyed in 1912-13 (it was not on a map surveyed in 1906). Osborne reports the building as being by Rhind, 1912, in free Renaissance style with a pedimented centre-piece and semi-dormers on the second floor. The ground floor has symmetrical bay windows in the last bay at east and west ends. Windows on the exposed (eastern) gable. Large halls behind.
In 1914 the building was the HQ of the 9th battalion, the Royal Scots, and base for "A" to "H" Companies of the battalion. It is still a Territorial Army Centre.
Information from HS/RCAHMS World War One Audit Project (GJB) 6 November 2013.
