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Latitude: 55.9493 / 55°56'57"N
Longitude: -3.1838 / 3°11'1"W
OS Eastings: 326170
OS Northings: 673552
OS Grid: NT261735
Mapcode National: GBR 8QG.LT
Mapcode Global: WH6SM.2Q5K
Plus Code: 9C7RWRX8+PF
Entry Name: Former Gateway To Tweeddale House Stables, Cowgate, Edinburgh
Listing Name: Cowgate, Gateway at East of St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church
Listing Date: 13 August 1987
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 366805
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28593
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200366805
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
William Adam, 1736-7. Round-arched ashlar carriage arch with flanking rectangular pedestrian gateways. Gateway to former stables (now demolished) serving Tweeddale House (see separate listing) to North, incorporated into 1977 random rubble coped screen wall and with some later stonework. Wall dry-dashed to rear (N).
B Group with Tweeddale House.
This is a rare survival in the Cowgate. It originally formed the gateway to the stables of Tweeddale House on the High Street (see separate listing). The stables were situated at the foot of the rig and were separated from the main house by a large garden. The garden and ancillary buildings are depicted on the Kincaid Map of 1784. Tweeddale House was an important 16th century townhouse.
The gateway is attributed to the renowned architect William Adam in the Buildings of Scotland Edinburgh Volume of 1984 and was an important component of Tweeddale House's ancillary structures and is the only one thought to survive.
The gateway was moved a short distance to its present site in 1977.
List description revised as part of the Holyrood Ward Resurvey (2008)
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