Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

CAMMO ROAD, CAMMO ESTATE, STABLE BLOCK (OFF CAMMO WALK)LB30259

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Group Category Details
100000019 - see notes
Date Added
17/05/1991
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 17496 74393
Coordinates
317496, 674393

Description

Dated 1811; initials IW (James Watson). U-plan, classical single storey and loft stable block; central octagonal tower. Droved sandstone ashlar; base course; band course at springing of arch; moulded cornice with blocking course. Roofless shell remains.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: advanced centre bay; recessed arch; blocked rise with oculus; tripartite opening set in arch; blocked base. Flanking 3-bay recessed ranges; single windows with raised cills at ground; small blocked openings above at loft; left bay of right section is doorway. Advanced end bays; arched openings on E elevation and in-facing returns.

SE ELEVATION: 3-bay; single windows with raised cills at ground; blocked opening in centre at loft; flanking remains of openings.

SW ELEVATION: square and snecked rubble; advanced central bay; arched opening. Flanking 4-bay ranges; single windows with raised cills at ground; small windows above; opening in 2nd bay of left section is doorway.

NW ELEVATION: blind.

INTERIOR: little survives; tower supported on rubble squinches; round opening at top.

Statement of Special Interest

A-Group with Cammo House Bridge, Quadrant Walls, Boundary Walls, Rubble Bridge, Knoll, Walled Garden and Water Tower. The stables at Cammo were built by James Watson, who was also responsible for the Water Tower and alterations to the house: the L-plan extension and crenellated parapet (see separate list descriptions). On maps predating the erection of Watson's stables, there are buildings on that site and they remain represented on later maps too. It is probable that these were the stables built by Sir John Clerk. Following the erection of Watson's stable it is likely that these earlier buildings would have been put to some other livestock use; it is believed that they were used as a piggery.

References

Bibliography

J Gifford, C McWilliam & D Walker THE BUILDINGS OF SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH (1984), p589-590; D Gray THE EVOLUTION OF POLICY AND PLEASURE GROUND WITH REFERENCE TO THE CAMMO ESTATE, 1993 Dissertation held at NMRS.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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