45-47 Blackfriars Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 August 1987. Tenement. 2 related planning applications.
45-47 Blackfriars Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- tall-gable-stoat
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1987
- Type
- Tenement
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
David Clunas (adapting a design by David Cousin and John Lessels - see Notes). 1870-71. Pair of 4-storey and gabled attic, 5 bay tenements with 17th century revival detailing, stepped to sloping ground and forming part of a planned run on E side of Blackfriars Street. Squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings. Chamfered window margins. Painted shop fronts to ground; string course at 1st floor, corbel table above 2nd floor. NW corner to Skinners Close canted at ground and corbelled-out at each floor above. Bipartite window to 4th-storey outer left bay with strapwork pediment. Some crowstepped gables.
Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Graded, grey Scottish slate. Coped end and wall-head gable stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
Detailed Attributes
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