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Edinburgh, 517 Lawnmarket, 1 Milne's Court

Tenement (17th Century)

Site Name Edinburgh, 517 Lawnmarket, 1 Milne's Court

Classification Tenement (17th Century)

Alternative Name(s) 1 Mylne's Court

Canmore ID 258237

Site Number NT27SE 5764

NGR NT 25506 73560

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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

Archaeology Notes

NT27SE 5764 25506 73560

See also NT27SE 5760, NT27SE 5763 and NT27SE 5765.

Built by Robert Mylne 1690. Six-storey and attic. Partially repaired 1914. Restored 1968-70, Ian G Lindsay and Partners.

RCAHMS 1951.

Architecture Notes

Earliest open square substituted for close.

ARCHITECT: R Mylne 1690

REFERENCE: NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND

R S Mylne's Master Masons I p.227 & 241

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND: "Water colour Sketches by T Brown" Adv. MSS 34.8.1-3 -1 sketch

NMRS REFERENCE:

Edgar's Maps of 1765 & 1742 - 'Miln's Square'

Ainslie's Map 1789, 1804 - 'Miln's Square'.

Unable to locate at time of upgrade 15.2.2000.

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Publication Account (1951)

12. Milne's Court, 517 Lawnmarket.

This court, built on the N. side of the Lawnmarket by James Mylne, King's Master Mason, is the earliest of the post-Revolution housing-schemes. Entered from the main street through a passage in the lower part of a large and handsome ashlar-fronted tenement [NT27SE 265 etc], six storeys and an attic in height, the Renaissance entrance bearing the date 1690 within the pediment. The ground floor of the front building has been converted into shops. The upper ones, all considerably modernised inside, are entered from two spacious solid-newel staircases embodied in the back of the building and not projecting from it. The contemporary block on the N side of the Court [NT27SE 266] is built of rubble throughout. Five-storeyed towards the Court, it has six floors and an attic behind, where the ground falls steeply to North Bank Street; and, as in the other block, a passage runs through the base while access to the upper floors is had by a sold-newel stair. The stark, cliff-like, N elevation, partly hidden by the High Church, is relieved above the eaves by crow-stepped gablets and massive chimney-stalks. The internal accommodation is well planned, with good rooms conveniently arranged; some of these are panelled and have moulded and carved fireplaces. The six-storeyed building on the E. side of the Court [NT27SE 5765], which is entered from a projecting, octagonal stair-tower, must on the evidence of its boldly moulded doorway be three-quarters of a century older than the foregoing, but internally it contains nothing of interest. The low extension on its S. side, now a workshop, is contemporary and has a bolection-moulded fireplace in the common gable.

RCAHMS 1951

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