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[70487] Lauriston Castle
Lauriston Castle, Cramond Road South, Edinburgh.
Before 1600. A 3-storey and attic turreted rubble-built tower-house, originally T-plan. Remodelled with a large 2-storey Scots-Tudor addition by William Burn (1789-1870), 1827.
A listed.
The collections at Lauriston Castle were assembled by Lauriston’s last residents, William Robert Reid, proprietor of Morison & Co, an Edinburgh cabinetmaking business. his wife Margaret, and Mrs Reid’s brother William Barton. They shared an understanding that the last of them surviving would leave the house, grounds and contents in Trust to the Nation, and so after the death of Mrs Reid in 1926 the Castle became a museum.
Lauriston’s last residents epitomised the Scottish Edwardian wealthy middle class. They were cultured, widely-travelled, and were all born in Edinburgh, into families of established local businesses.
[70487] Lauriston Castle
Lauriston Castle, Cramond Road South, Edinburgh.
Before 1600. A 3-storey and attic turreted rubble-built tower-house, originally T-plan. Remodelled with a large 2-storey Scots-Tudor addition by William Burn (1789-1870), 1827.
A listed.
The collections at Lauriston Castle were assembled by Lauriston’s last residents, William Robert Reid, proprietor of Morison & Co, an Edinburgh cabinetmaking business. his wife Margaret, and Mrs Reid’s brother William Barton. They shared an understanding that the last of them surviving would leave the house, grounds and contents in Trust to the Nation, and so after the death of Mrs Reid in 1926 the Castle became a museum.
Lauriston’s last residents epitomised the Scottish Edwardian wealthy middle class. They were cultured, widely-travelled, and were all born in Edinburgh, into families of established local businesses.