He then worked with William Burn and David Bryce in Edinburgh, before returning to practice with his father in the mid-1840s.
[1] The duo built or added to several railway stations, including that of Stirling and Perth.
They also served as the Perth's City Architects from 1856, succeeding William Macdonald Mackenzie.
[1] In 1870, Heiton's self-designed double villa, Craigievar and Darnick, on Perth's Kinnoull Terrace, was completed.
[1] He is buried in Greyfriars Burial Ground,[3] just off the city's Tay Street, where several of his works still stand.