Edinburgh, Holyrood Palace, Palace Yard, Yard House — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Holyrood Palace once kept a separate yard house beside its main chambers, a small building large enough to hold kitchens, stores or guard rooms. The main palace faced ceremony and public life, while the yard house faced the daily work that kept ceremony running. The yard between them gave both buildings room to breathe. That is still visible in the shape of the palace site: a large house, a smaller house and the yard that explains why both existed.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Edinburgh, Holyrood Palace, Palace Yard, Yard House as Courtyard House (18th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Yard House in Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, was built in the 18th century as part of the palace's Palace Yard complex. It is important as an example of later architectural development within one of Scotland's most historically significant royal residences.

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