Scottish+Lands+and+Buildings+Company

=Scottish Lands and Buildings Company Ltd=

Company Number: SC000378 Date of Incorporation: 21 November 1871 Contact Details: c/o Haslemere Estates Management Ltd, Hobart House, 80 Hanover Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1EL Operating Details: Dissolved 13 October 2001 Other names (if known): Function of Company*: Letting of own property (7020) Headquarters/Base of Operations Location: Edinburgh Area of Operation:


 * Taken from Standard Industrial Classification 2003, as used by Companies House in 2010

Records
This company was owned by Haslemere Estates Management. I have not received a response from the company as to whether there is any extant record collection. There seem to be no identified records present in archival institutions.

Related records; some of the plans of the buildings of Peddie and Kinnear are available in the National Archives of Scotland (and via SCAN). Presumably some of these buildings would have been managed by this company, or one of the other companies set up by the architects.

This company was initially founded in 1864 by a pair of Edinburgh architects John Peddie and Charles Kinnear for the purposes of speculative property building and development in order to keep their partnership continuously employed. The partnership particularly targeted the building of hotels, though it had some success in taking over the Grosvenor Crescent section of the West Coates development. Although this activitiy was mostly based around Edinburgh, it also included buildings like the Dick & Stevenson Building in Glasgow (built in 1872). The incorporation of the company under the Companies Act, which granted it limited liability, increased the ability of its founder’s to speculate with less risk. However by 1877 the company (and the other companies created by Kinnear and Peddie) had become massively overstretched, and with the crash of the city of Glasgow bank the company went into voluntary liquidation.

This company survived into the twentieth century, presumably letting the buildings that Peddie and Kinnear had constructed, though it appears to have kept a very low profile. It may well be that the company was acquired by the Scottish Metropolitan Property Company, possibly in the early 1900s, though the company continued to operate and manage its assets. At some point the company was bought up by Haslemere Estates Management, who continued to manage the properties owned by the company. This company was eventually dissolved in 2001 (possibly after Haslemere transferred its assets away from those managed by the Scottish Metropolitan Property Company).