Edinburgh Castle, Lang Stairs Edinburgh, Scotland
Listed Building Data
Edinburgh Castle, Lang Stairs has been designated a scheduled monument in Scotland with the following information. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- Historic Scotland ID
- 395618 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 48221
- Canmore ID
- 253940
- Category
- A
- Name
- Edinburgh Castle, Lang Stairs
- Parish
- Edinburgh
- County
- Edinburgh, City Of
- Easting
- 325158
- Northing
- 673529
- Date Listed
- 14 December 1970
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Circa 1850. Flight of 70 ashlar steps, with curved ashlar-coped rubble retaining walls, iron hand-rails and lamp standard on pier to foot, following line of principal medieval access to summit.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
The A Group comprises Batteries, Foog's Gate, Gatehouse, Governor's House, Great Hall, Lang Stairs, Military Prison, National War Museum, New Barracks, Old Guardhouse, Palace Block, Portcullis Gate, St Margaret's Chapel, Scottish National War Memorial, Telephone Kiosks, United Services Museum and Vaults, all within Edinburgh Castle, and in the Care of Historic Scotland. The curved rubble wall to W may be the remains of a gatehouse guarding the approach to the summit.
Listed Building References
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Appears on 1854 OS map. Gifford, McWilliam and Walker EDINBURGH (1984) p 89. https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/edinburgh-castle
