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Edinburgh, 8 Meadow Lane

Coach House (Post Medieval)

Site Name Edinburgh, 8 Meadow Lane

Classification Coach House (Post Medieval)

Canmore ID 52174

Site Number NT27SE 156

NGR NT 26069 72784

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

Activities

Standing Building Recording (19 January 2015 - 10 February 2015)

A full photographic record was produced of all external elevations of all garden walls and buildings affected by the proposed development at Buccleuch Place and Meadow Lane. Detailed, measured hand drawings were also produced, at a scale of 1:20 of the coach house scheduled for demolition in the southeast corner of the western half of the site. Where applicable, pre-existing architectural drawings have been marked-up with phasing information as necessary.

The programme of archaeological building recording included a complete photographic record of all structures and features, including boundary, and garden walls scheduled for demolition. Measured hand-drawings of the interior and exterior elevations with phasing were also produced for the coach house at No.10 and 11 Meadow Lane.

Information from Andrew Morrison (Addyman Archaeology) December 2015: OASIS ID: addymana1-203358

Standing Building Recording (7 January 2020)

NT 26061 72783 A historic building survey was undertaken, on 6 January 2020, of a 19th century former mews building, now a garage, at 8 Meadow Lane. The works were undertaken in advance of development as a condition of planning consent. A watching brief was also undertaken on the site during development.

No 8 Meadow Lane is a typical example of an early 19th-century mews building in Edinburgh’s New Town. As with many of these buildings, they were later converted to garages for cars, their size and the wide doorways to the street perfect for this type of conversion. Many are now seeing a new lease of life, converted to domestic accommodation, such as here at 8 Meadow Lane.

The building was constructed in the late 1820s and would have originally comprised space for a cart and horse to service the residents of the New Town tenements in Buccleuch Place. As the motor car took over from the horse as the main form of transport in the earlier 20th century, the building was converted to a garage which necessitated the blocking of a number of openings, including the door in the E wall of the easternmost garage and a slit window in the N wall. There was originally an upper attic floor to both rooms, although in the westernmost room this was later removed, probably to accommodate larger vehicles. The original access to this area was possibly via a stair against the N wall of the westernmost room, with a faint stair scar along this wall. The door was also probably heightened at the same time, which encroached upon the original upper floor window on this side.

The watching brief did not identify any archaeological finds or features with the exception of patches of cobbles which can probably be associated with the original floor level of the building, before it was largely removed and replaced with the concrete floor.

Archive: NRHE (intended)

Funder: Di Rollo

Diana Sproat − AOC Archaeology Group

(Source: DES Vol 21)

OASIS ID: aocarcha1-387978

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