The suggestion in
The Buildings of Edinburgh that a pavilion of
Adam's Infirmary remains as part of this building is contradicted by an Ordnance Survey plan of 1881, which shows
Adam's building standing quite separately. However the ornate gate piers which pierce the Mediaeval
Flodden Wall running along Drummond Street are by
Adam. Now also B-listed, these date from c.1738 and were moved here from the entrance to the former Infirmary by Rowand
Anderson c.1906. The frontage of the building, including the gates, appeared in the television drama
The Walls of Jericho (1981), the story of
Sophia Jex Blake (1840 - 1912).
(1991) The Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh.
(1881) Edinburgh and its Environs: Canongate - Sheet 36.
