156-158 High Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Tenement.
156-158 High Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- open-garret-moon
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- Tenement
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1825 incorporating earlier fabric (see Notes). 5-storey, 7-bay tenement with distinctive round-arched window treatment to 1st floor right. Pilastered timber shops-fronts to ground. Ashlar (painted at 1st floor). Raised cills. Langley-Gothick doorway at No 156 inscribed 'Mary's Chapel'. Narrow round-arched pend opening to centre leading to Covenant Close. 5 round-arched openings with Y-tracery glazing to 1st floor right alternating in size with balustraded, pilastered and corniced moulding to centre 3 bays. Pair of bi-partite piended dormers to left and pair of single dormers to right.
Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Scottish slate. Particularly broad brick and ashlar stacks. Clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
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