Inverleith House is a historic house, now within the Royal Botanic Garden, in the suburb of

Inverleith Inverleith (Scottish Gaelic: ''Inbhir Lìte'') is an inner suburb in the north of Edinburgh, Scotland, on the fringes of the central region of the city. Its neighbours include Trinity to the north and the New Town to the south, with Canonmills ...

, in

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, Scotland.

History

Inverleith House was designed in 1773 by David Henderson and built for James Rocheid in 1774. In about 1820 a part of the Inverleith estate was sold to become the Royal Botanic Garden. The house was bought by the city in 1877 together with another part of the estate and, after restoration work following a fire, became the official residence of the Regius Keeper (director) of the Royal Botanic Garden. From 1960 it housed the new

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, which in 1984 moved to the building of the former John Watson's Institution on Belford Road.Fletcher, Harold R., Brown William H, The Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, Edinburgh, 1970, pp 256 On 4 December 1970 the house was listed as a historic building in category B, with

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id 28081.Inverleith House (gallery of Modern Art) Arboretum Road and Inverleith Row, Edinburgh
British Listed Buildings. Accessed March 2015. An extension was built in 1974. Since 1986 the house has been used as exhibition space by the Royal Botanic Garden. Exhibitions of

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and

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are held there. It was refurbished in 1990 and again in 2004, with support from National Lottery Funds administered by The Scottish Arts Council, which also supports the exhibitions programme.

References

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