NEW ASSEMBLY CLOSE

Originally sited the mansion of John Murray of Blackbarony around 1580; He was father to Sir Gideon Murray, the Ist Lord Elibank.

It provides a route to the New Assemblies Hall, a handsome Georgian building designed and built by Gillespie Graham.

It would later accomodate public dances, the Highland society, the King's Arms Tavern, The Commercial Bank of Scotland (1814-1847) and Edinburgh Wax Museum.