Please use the "Comment" feature to contribute any ideas here.
Ideas: We have quite a few but have not had time to list them yet, since the most urgent action is the effort to have the farmhouse listed.
Photographs: We have taken our own photographs lately... but do you have any historic pictures?
History of the house or any personal recollections?
I regularly walk past this building and am horrified that it is set for demolition. A wonderful historic house with beautiful trees around, have lodged comment on council planning portal as suggested by recent flyers. It would be so detrimental for local residents and the surrounding area. It seems ridiculous that it hasn't any protection against this type of development.
It's now available - 16/02397/FUL
I am not local to the Comiston district, but came across this on Ian Murray's newsletter.
Ammo for those wanting to get this listed. There are a number of old and really interesting farm buildings in what has now become the City of Edinburgh, but they are being steadily eroded due to ignorance of farming history, and I can think of several that have been destroyed in recent years, where they might have been attractive and instructive ornaments to subsequent development. Although the steadings have all gone, the interest of this surviving farmhouse is as a prime example of the dwelling and status of a prosperous Lothian tenant farmer during the 19th cent. Then Mid and East Lothian actually led the world in agriculture, and people came from all over Europe and the emergent US to see how it was done. From the photos it looks remarkably as is must have been when it was built. Many of those on what are still working farms have been altered substantially. To destroy this would be an act of ignorant vandalism.
Thanks, Nicola, that sounds like an excellent use of the farmhouse. The planning application will be lodged soon, I expect, so when it's published if you'd like to visit the CEC Planning Portal online to find out how to make a "comment" (i.e. objection) based on your idea, that would add a voice to the campaign and put forward an idea personal to you and rather practical.
Hi there I work in the oxgangs area with a project called oxgangs sure start we help children and families along with health visitors etc I think that this would be a great building for all professionals and groups that work with children in the surrounding area to all work together to insure all children get the best start in life .and also keep a very well know building alive .