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The plan was unpopular but before it was abandoned in 1982, seven buildings were removed. The old Boots building at 102 Princes Street, with its series of statues of William Wallace, Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott and Robert the Bruce, was demolished in 1965. The North British & Mercantile Insurance Company building at number 64 followed.
This list includes the historic houses, castles, abbeys, museums and other buildings and monuments in the care of Historic Environment Scotland (HES). HES (Scottish Gaelic: Àrainneachd Eachdraidheil Alba) is a non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government, responsible for investigating, caring for and promoting Scotland’s historic environment.
A number of 16th century buildings survive on the east side of the close. In the 1920s, as a result of slum clearance programmes, most of the buildings on the west side of the close were removed. This demolition retained various carved doorways but moved them together, where they now stand in a mutually impossible relationship for each to be used.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) Edinburgh shown within Scotland Sketch map of Edinburgh. The Old Town (dark brown) and New Town (light brown) areas are separately listed This is a list of Category A listed buildings in Edinburgh, Scotland. This list contains all buildings outside ...
Provost Little built the nearby Liberton House, and the castle was abandoned in 1610, being subsequently used for agricultural storage. [2] Deposits of charcoal as well as smashed pottery suggest that the tower was caught up in the fighting around Edinburgh in 1650, when Cromwell invaded Edinburgh as part of the Anglo-Scottish War. [3]
Government buildings in Edinburgh (13 P) H. Hospitals in Edinburgh (1 C, 28 P) Hotels in Edinburgh (14 P) Houses in Edinburgh (2 C, 13 P) Housing estates in Edinburgh ...
The tower is a category A listed building. [19] The 19th-century house is separately listed at category A. [17] Edinburgh Castle: Royal fortress 12th-21st century Site of a castle since the 12th century, [20] Edinburgh Castle contains buildings of multiple periods and functions, including the royal palace, great hall, and 19th-century barracks.
Edinburgh Castle is a historic castle in Edinburgh, ... Work began in 1858, but was soon abandoned, and only the hospital building was eventually remodelled in 1897. [56]