Exchange Buildings
Introduction
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Exchange Buildings
Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 30 Jun 2011
This elevation faces Castle Street; to the left of the building is Exchange Street and on the right is Dock Street. It was designed by George Smith (1793-1877) and built in 1828-1830, intended to contain a coffee house, assembly rooms, merchants' library and reading room. The building contractors were Messrs John and James Rutherford of Edinburgh. Conversion to a customs house was mooted, but did not happen, and the ground floor was laid out as shops. It was used as a music hall, assembly rooms and masonic temple, and for most of the 20th century as the printing works of David Winter and Son, before being acquired by the local authority. It is a Category A Listed building.
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Image Location
Latitude
56.460081
Longitude
-2.967434