{"id":21426,"date":"2019-01-22T17:37:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T17:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=21426"},"modified":"2019-01-22T17:37:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T17:37:04","slug":"ihbc-cpd-boost-blog-from-hes-steve-robb-on-robert-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=21426","title":{"rendered":"IHBC \u2018CPD boost\u2019 blog from HES: Steve Robb on Robert Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"streetHistoric Environment Scotland\u2019s Engine Shed Newsletter<\/em> has featured a new blog from its Deputy Head of Casework, Steven Robb IHBC, (and also a contributor to IHBC\u2019s journal Context)<\/em>, on Edinburgh classicist Robert Brown \u2013 a leading if perhaps less familiar later Georgian architect who \u2018planned several neighbourhoods and designed many of the buildings that help characterise Scotland\u2019s beautiful capital city\u2019.<\/h3>\n
image: HES\/EngineShed Blog: Montague St, Edinburgh<\/em><\/h6>\n

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HES writes:<\/p>\n

Have you heard of Robert Brown? He was a prolific architect who worked on many projects throughout Edinburgh\u2019s New Town. Learn more about the architect in a blog by Historic Environment Scotland.<\/p>\n

Steve Robb writes:<\/p>\n

Unlike architects Robert Adam or William Henry Playfair, Robert Brown is by no means a household name. However, by delving deeper into his career, it becomes clear he was one of Edinburgh\u2019s most hard-working Georgian architects.<\/p>\n

He planned several neighbourhoods and designed many of the buildings that help characterise Scotland\u2019s beautiful capital city.<\/p>\n

From humble beginnings
\n<\/strong>Brown was born in December 1765, as the son of an Uphall publican. He\u00a0gravitated towards Edinburgh in the 1780s. With the construction of the New Town, this was a time of great expansion.<\/p>\n

He started\u00a0his working life as a wright (carpenter). In 1789 he married the daughter of a Gorgie tailor and began training as a surveyor. He probably attended one of the many nightclasses that were held at the time for ambitious city tradesmen.<\/p>\n

By 1811, when he first appears in Edinburgh\u2019s Post Office directories, he was working as an assistant to Robert Reid. Reid was an established architect who planned the northern extension to Edinburgh\u2019s New Town. Eventually, Reid would become the King\u2019s Architect in Scotland.<\/p>\n

Brown became known for his competency. Some of the city\u2019s most influential landowners began to notice him.\u00a0He provided the full service. Not only could he design the layout of streets, including their drains, he could design the buildings on them. He could also organise the sale of feus (leases) to individual builders, who would then be contracted to closely follow his designs\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026 His most important working relationship was with the Hope family. From 1810 Brown laid out their landholdings on the Southside. He designed plain four-storey tenements on Rankeillor Street, Montague Street and Clerk Street. On Clerk Street he also designed the Hope Park Chapel-of-Ease, (1823) now the\u00a0Queen\u2019s Hall<\/a><\/u>, a popular music venue\u2026.<\/p>\n

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