Shallow domed roof; asphalt covering; opening hatch to NW.TWEEDIE DOME: late 19th century. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.While Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating listed buildings, the planning authority is responsible for determining what is covered by the listing, including what is listed through curtilage. panorama, Robert Barker?s 'Panoramic View from Calton Hill,' was painted in the late 1780s.The idea of an observatory was first put forward in the mid-18th century, and a fund was set up accordingly, but it was not until the 1770s that firm proposals were received by the Council. All concerned were so taken by the design that the building of the octagonal observatory was all but abandoned to concentrate on the construction of the Observatory House. Small window to 2nd floor.

The Edinburgh meridian runs through the meridional slot of the east wing. 'Following Henderson's death in 1844, Charles Piazzi Smyth was appointed Astronomer Royal in 1845. This consumed all the available finance for the project, and in 1777 construction halted, with only one of the four intended buttressed towers and the compound wall complete. To NW, 2 stone steps leading to doorway projecting from curvature of dome; timber-boarded door.CRAWFORD DOME: Public Works Office, 1897. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Metal covered dome; ball finial. The 8.3ft Transit instrument was made by Repsold and Sons of Hamburg, circa 1833; its Reversing Carriage and rails, striding level, observer's chair and mercury trough are also extant. West wing (formerly Mural Circle room): false ceiling concealing meridional slot and possibly frieze and cornice as in east wing. Map, 1853, 1897. A fund for an Observatory had been set up thirty-five years earlier by Colin Maclaurin, then Professor of Mathematics at Edinburgh University, and Short obtained this, together with a 99 year lease of half an acre of land on Calton Hill, on condition that he should make the telescopes available to university students.A plan for the Observatory was drawn up by James Craig, architect of the New Town, and building commenced later the same year. O.S. Many of the buildings at Collective are hundreds of years old. Douglas was forced to pay for warrants to recover them, and decided to throw the Short children out of the house for good measure. The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. In addition, the roof of the tower of Old Observatory House was the viewing point from which the world?s first 360? K Cruft and A Fraser, eds, JAMES CRAIG, 1744-1795, (1995). McEwan Dome (1st floor): timber-boarded walls; revolving dome; McEwan telescope (see Notes) to centre.CITY DOME: Robert Morham (for Public Works Office), 1895. Random rubble to 18th century sections; squared, tooled, snecked rubble to 19th century sections; predominantly polished margins with droved tabs to openings; squared rubble quoins to tower buttresses; droved ashlar to quoins and crowsteps to 19th century sections. SC045925CALTON HILL, OFF REGENT ROAD , OBSERVATORY HOUSE (OLD OBSERVATORY), CITY OBSERVATORY Review of Calton Hill Reviewed July 28, 2019 In order to get the best panoramic view of Edinburgh you have two options, Calton Hill or Arthur seat, The former is almost to nothing stressful while the latter, being the highest point of the city is exhausting to say the least ( I chose to climb the hill on the hottest day of the year). Many of the tradesmen were owed wages for several years, and even Craig himself was writing to the council as late as 1792 to demand unpaid architect?s fees.After the funding ran out in 1771, the council withdrew from the contract, and siezed Short?s telescope in leu of payments.

The gun's clock was connected to the clock on Calton Hill by a 4,020-ft overhead wire. Douglas by this time was broke, and was forced to return to sea. In 1861 the famous time gun was added, fired by means of electrical signals along a single span of wire between Calton Hill and Castle Hill. Projecting base course; cavetto band course; string course (to S side only); cavetto cornice.

Short proposed to build a relatively basic observatory, but following an increase in funding the scheme became more complex; the final proposal included an octagonal observatory with flanking pavilions for storage and a further, smaller observatory with accommodation for a keeper. The Dome is not currently (2002) used for astronomical purposes.The Tweedie Dome has value as a good example of a wooden framed domed observatory, and also as part of the history of the astronomical developments on Calton Hill. Some earlier listed building records may use the word 'excluding', but if the Act is not quoted, the record has not been revised to reflect subsequent legislation.Listed building consent is required for changes to a listed building which affect its character as a building of special architectural or historic interest. Find out more about our Twelve Monuments project; Find out more about our City Observatory project Maria was forcibly evicted in 1850, and the Observatory demolished, amidst protests about the crude manner in which instruments were thrown to the ground.Not to be outdone, Maria took over an old building near the Castle, to run as a public observatory, with a museum of scientific and other curiosities.


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