Corner

As promised, another Water of Leith #oneriver quirky architecture blip!

The yellow building on the opposite bank of the Water is Quayside Mills (now the offices of Simpson & Brown Architects, and Addyman Archaeology, for whom I do a lot of work) it has an ancient history. Originally it started out as a tower house, probably a customs post for the Abbey of Holyrood, guarding the north end of the lowest bridge on the river. This shot is basically along the line of that bridge.
There was a small chapel attached to the tower (otherwise North Leith parishioners had to travel all the way up to the top of Restalrig Road for mass every time), it was converted to N Leith Parish Church in 1600, and the tower was expanded to make the manse (plus a schoolroom), basically the yellow part of the extant building.
This started falling down, after a while, so the Kirk Session applied to rebuild the east wall, four feet, or so, further east. Permission was granted, but on condition that the extension didn't intrude onto the roadway from the bridge. Which is why there's an apparently pointless cut-off corner on the building.

Not an exciting photograph, but pedagogical, I tell myself ;)