65, 67, 69, 71, 73 Grassmarket, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 June 1996. Tenement block. 3 related planning applications.
65, 67, 69, 71, 73 Grassmarket, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- distant-step-fen
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 June 1996
- Type
- Tenement block
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
David MacGibbon and Thomas Ross, 1875, with alterations and additions by James Jerdan, 1889-90 (see Notes). 4-storey 4-bay symmetrical tenement block with Scots Baronial details. 2 crowstepped gables with truncated apex stacks; former shops at ground floor (now lodging house cafe). Squared and snecked stugged sandstone with polished dressings. Moulded cill course at 1st and 3rd floors. Original shop fronts with tripartite shoulder-arched windows flanking timber panelled door with plate glass fanlight in shoulder-arched opening. Corniced and consoled windows in moulded surrounds at 1st floor; bracketed projecting cills and moulded segmental relieving arches to 2nd floor windows; paired windows in gabled dormerheads; small round-arched gabletted windows at apex. Tall pitched-roofed brick stair tower with stone crowsteps and corniced stacks to rear (see Notes).
4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Corniced wallhead and ridge stacks with circular cans.
Detailed Attributes
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