Panmure House

Panmure House, in Lochend Close, off the Canongate  is a rare survival of a late seventeenth century town mansion.

It was listed Category A in 1970, and is within the Old Town Conservation Area and Old and New Towns of Edinburgh World Heritage Site.

It is a two storey stone L-shaped building with attic and basement storey.  Long occupied by the Earls of Panmure, the economist Adam Smith lodged there for a spell before his death in 1790.  In the 1830’s the house was altered and its grounds developed for an Iron Foundry.   It somehow managed to survive the industrialisation, depopulation and redevelopment of the Old Town, and was identified as an important historic building worthy of retention by the City Architect in 1945.   In 1957 it was carefully restored as a club-house for the Canongate Boys Club and later passed to the Council who used it for educational purposes before they sold it to the current owners in 2008.

As a Category A-listed building the application to add a three storey glazed atrium to the principal elevation of the building required listed building consent.   On 13th August 2010 Historic Scotland informed City of Edinburgh Council that Scottish Ministers had taken the decision to call in the case for their own determination. Permission for the atrium was granted by the planning minister in July 2011.


Letter to EK:JN Architects 25 March 2009 [pdf, 85 kb]

Letter to City of Edinburgh Council 21 August 2009 [pdf, 20 kb]

Letter to City of Edinburgh Council 11 September 2009 [pdf, 84 kb]

Letter to City of Edinburgh Council 13 August 2010 [pdf, 78 kb]