Edinburgh, Canongate, 'lothian Hut'
House (18th Century)
Site Name Edinburgh, Canongate, 'lothian Hut'
Classification House (18th Century)
Canmore ID 52467
Site Number NT27SE 419
NGR NT 26759 73854
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/52467
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
NT27SE 419 2675 7390
Name: NT 2675 7390. Site of Lothian Hut (NAT)
OS 1:1056 map, 1854.
This local usage of the word 'Hut' indicates the secondary house of a family who normally had a larger and more imposing residence.
M Tait 1959.
Lothian Hut stood on the site, now occupied by a brewery, a little E of Queensberry House. It was a small mansion, erected by William, the third Marquis of Lothian, about 1750 and demolished in 1825.
D Wilson 1873; C B B Watson 1923.
