What is recorded here

Edinburgh, 124 Whitehouse Road, Whitehouse is a buried land surface where a seventeenth-century tower house still stands beneath the living city. A culvert, wall and clay smoking pipe mark the lost rooms, while the house itself may have watched streets before they had names. The ground keeps its shape even when memory leaves it empty.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Edinburgh, 124 Whitehouse Road, Whitehouse as Buried Land Surface (period Unknown), Culvert (period Unknown), Tower House (17th Century), Wall (period Unknown), Pipe (smoking) (clay)(period Unknown). 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.

The historic-place record does not grant public access. Check current conditions and ownership before entering land or a building.