30 Grassmarket, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Tenement.

30 Grassmarket, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
moated-ember-thyme
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Tenement
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

James Lithgow (builder), circa 1740, restored Gray Marshall and Associates, 1994-5. 4-storey 13-bay double tenement with restaurants including The White Hart Inn to ground. Lime rendered with indented sandstone margins (painted to ground); random rubble with polished sandstone dressings to rear. Nepus gables with apex stacks to bays 4 and 5 from left and bays 3, 4 and 5 from right. 3 piend-roofed dormers to attic. Pilastraded shop front to right. Stone-vaulted pend to Dunlop's Court in 5th bay from right. 2-leaf timber panelled door to White Hart Inn to left, with small-pane glazed fanlight above in ornate doorpiece: entablature supported by thistle-carved consoles; swan-necked pediment clasping aedicule with carved stag, flanked by obelisks; small-pane glazing to 4 windows to right, flanked by pilasters. Small pend to outer left leading to rear court.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: 2 piend-roofed semi-octagonal stair towers. Piend-roofed dormers to attic.

12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows above ground floor. Grey slates. Stone skews. Corniced stacks with circular cans.

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