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Latitude: 55.9229 / 55°55'22"N
Longitude: -3.2264 / 3°13'34"W
OS Eastings: 323459
OS Northings: 670660
OS Grid: NT234706
Mapcode National: GBR 8FS.Y9
Mapcode Global: WH6SS.DDV8
Plus Code: 9C7RWQFF+5F
Entry Name: Old Craig House, Craighouse Road, Edinburgh
Listing Name: Craig House (Old) off Craighouse Road, Napier University
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 365472
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28046
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200365472
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Building Neoclassical architecture Former hospital
Original house dated LCSP 1565, 3-storey and attic rubble-
built, 72' x 25' 8" with square tower near W end of N front;
main gables have 18th century club skew, tower has original
crowsteps. Ground floor vaulted. NW wing dated 1746 added to
re-entrant angle of tower (forming L-plan) 3-storey 4-window
to E, 2 crowstepped chimney gables and large S crowstepped
gable to W. Harled with margins. Minor alterations at early
19th century restoration, more extensive alterations late in
century (Sydney Mitchell) for hospital purposes; some further alterations since. Poor modern wooden verandah encloses
original doorways. Original gatepiers built into garden
wall.
Built by the Symsounes of Craighouse; belonged to the Dicks
from at least 1685. In the 19th century it was the residence
of John Hill Burton, historian
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