Main Point, 2-4 High Riggs, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Public house. 3 related planning applications.
Main Point, 2-4 High Riggs, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- young-rotunda-wren
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1974
- Type
- Public house
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Circa 1770, with later additions. 3-storey 3-sided classical building on trapezoid site (now public house to ground floor). 3 bays to NW and SE; 3-storey tripartite canted bay to junction. Droved ashlar with polished dressings, painted at ground floor. Base course, mutuled dividing band between ground and 1st, cill course to 1st, eaves course; long and short quoins.
NW (FOUNTAINBRIDGE) ELEVATION: 4 openings (those to right blocked) to ground floor, flanked by paired Ionic pilasters (see Notes); 3 windows to 1st and 2nd floors.
NE ELEVATION: piend-roofed canted bay; 2-leaf timber panelled door flanked by Ionic pilasters in centre with scrolled pediment above; modern fixed windows to sides; corniced windows in moulded surrounds to 1st floor, consoled to centre; dentilled dividing band between 1st and 2nd floors (see notes); 2nd floor regularly fenestrated; slated dormer to attic.
SE (HIGH RIGGS) ELEVATION: door to centre; windows to right blocked; otherwise regularly fenestrated; slated dormer to attic.
INTERIOR: reputedly very high quality interior at 1st floor to NE.
Detailed Attributes
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