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