Edinburgh, Bonaly, 65 Bonaly Road, Bonaly Tower
Country House (18th Century)
Site Name Edinburgh, Bonaly, 65 Bonaly Road, Bonaly Tower
Classification Country House (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Bonaly House
Canmore ID 123204
Site Number NT26NW 65
NGR NT 21266 67794
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/123204
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
NT26NW 65.00 21266 67794
NT26NW 65.01 21347 67861 Boundary Walls, Gates and Bridge
NT26NW 65.02 21303 67743 Garden with Terraces, Steps and Statuary
NT26NW 65.03 21387 67825 Coach House and Stables
NT26NW 65.04 21216 67515 Lord Cockburn's Bath
NT26NW 65.05 21198 67499 'Ruined Temple'
ARCHITECT:
Sydney Mitchell and Wilson (restoration) - addition of a wing 1886.
W.H.Playfair - peel tower 1839 (addition to small farmhouse).
David Bryce c.1870 - Western wing.
William Burn, 1826.
REFERENCE:
SCOTTISH NATIONAL BUILDING RECORD
William Burn dated 1826 (from R.I.B.A, London)
Not carried out. 3 sheets elevations; 4 plans; 2 sections.
Sydney Mitchell and Wilson, 1886
6 sheet plans, elevations and sections.
Watherston Drawings, 1882
11 plans, elevations, sections.
NMRS PRINTROOM:
Lithograph view of Bonaly Tower, Edinburgh. Unable to locate at time of upgrade, 2.7.1999.
Insc: 'Club Hall, Bonaly. Drawn on Stone by W. Mason from a sketch by Jas. Somerville H.P.B.F.V Nicol lith. Edin.'. Unsigned, no date. c.1842.
Lithograph.
(9 3/4" x 12 3/4")
Acc. No. : 1988/32
Purchased: Euan Lamont, 54 Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh.
Notes: The Bonaly Friday Club issued a printed history of the Club in 1842 from which this probably came. Club meetings took place at Bonaly Tower.
MISCELANEOUS
Information from Miss Alison Kelly, 1983.
Coade Stone.
A resident of this house, Mr Michael W. Malcolm showed me the Shakespeare, which is in the garden (and is similar to the one example from the Opera House in the Haymarket, London, now at East Ham Public Library), and said he had been told that Lord Cockburn took the Shakespeare when it was displaced from in front of the Register House by a statute of Wellington, and sent it off to Bonaly Tower. This need not contradict the information that the statue came from the theatre, if it went from the theatre to the Register House. It has lost a hand, and a couple of fingers from the other, but is otherwise in good condition.
Bennet Book Auctions, Edinburgh, 9th March, 1981.
William Playfair letter, regarding the above, sold.
1 sentence long, uniformative.
Edinburgh University Libraries were bidding.
Builder's Journal, September 28th, 1898 - 1 printed drawing - unable to locate journal at time of upgrade, 2.7.1900
See also Dreghorn Castle, NT 26 NW NT2227 6812 Site 44.
