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Edinburgh, Drummond Place, Bellevue House

Custom House (18th Century)

Site Name Edinburgh, Drummond Place, Bellevue House

Classification Custom House (18th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Old Customs House; Excise Office

Canmore ID 137619

Site Number NT27SE 3384

NGR NT 25539 74616

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/137619

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  • Council Edinburgh, City Of
  • Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
  • Former Region Lothian
  • Former District City Of Edinburgh
  • Former County Midlothian

Architecture Notes

Robert Adam House (c.1775) for Major General Scott near St Andrew's Square in New Town of Edinburgh, one of these designs very like executed house

Demolished 1840's

Edinburgh Town Council Minutes 17.11.1800 (per Boog Watson notes). Drawing Room chimneypiece sold to the Duke of Argyll for ?200 for tapestry room at Inveray.

Edinburgh Town Council Minutes 28,12,1803 (per Boog Watson notes, Vol. 19, p.33) Robert Norrie paid for painting at Bellevue after proposed use for Custom's House

Copied from Architecture notes - 'HM Colvin John Kays Original portraits 'built mansion house in Drummond Place'

SCOTTISH RECORD OFFICE REFERENCE

Bellevue House, Excise Office

GD 151/11/32 Letter: estimates for the Gate for the Excise Office

James Playfair wishes James Heard, mason, to undertake the work

1790

NMRS REFERENCE

EDD/276/13 Principal front of a house for Andrew Crosbie Esq statfile copy and neg.

Original plan in Adam Collection, Soane Museum, No. 127, Vol.29

EDD/276/14 Plan of a house for Andrew Crosbie Esq statfile copy and neg. and slide

Original plan in Adam Collection, Soane Museum, No.127, Vol.29

Also EDD/276/13 Block plan of villa as built taken from Drummond Place feuing plan (perhaps EDD/79/1) - copy in NMRS, original in Edinburgh City Architects plan store

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