Edinburgh Castle, United Services Museum Edinburgh, Scotland
Listed Building Data
Edinburgh Castle, United Services Museum 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 395633 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 48231
- Canmore ID
- 111735
- Category
- A
- Name
- Edinburgh Castle, United Services Museum
- Parish
- Edinburgh
- County
- Edinburgh, City Of
- Easting
- 325145
- Northing
- 673449
- Date Listed
- 14 December 1970
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Captain Theodore Dury, 1708 and J Wilson Paterson, 1928-9. 2 parallel 2-storey piend-roofed ranges separated by very narrow court, built on series of earlier vaulted undercrofts (separately listed). Random rubble with polished dressings. Cavetto-moulded eaves course. Ashlar quoins. E ELEVATION: 7 bays. Projecting base course. Timber door in round-arched surround in 3rd bay from right. 2 windows blocked to ground floor. N ELEVATION: 4 bays. Corner to NE truncated 1924. Door to centre with relieving arch over. W ELEVATION: regularly fenestrated. Tall rubble walls and barred windows to vaults beneath. 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Corniced rubble stacks.
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. Also known as Queen Anne Building. Raised on a series of 15th century vaulted undercrofts, on the site of the kitchens serving the Great Hall, to provide accommodation for staff officers, including barrack master, master gunner, school master and chaplain. Interior remodelled by Paterson in 1928-30 to form the Naval and Military Museum.
Listed Building References
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
RCAHMS INVENTORY, EDINBURGH (1951) pp1-25. Gifford, McWilliam and Walker EDINBURGH (1984) p98. MacIvor EDINBURGH CASTLE (1993). https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/edinburgh-castle
