81, 83 Grassmasket, 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. 1 related planning application.
81, 83 Grassmasket, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- still-banister-gilt
- 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
John Lessels, 1875. 4-storey 2-bay tenement block with Scots Baronial details; shops to ground floor; 3rd floor windows in gabletted crowstepped gables with decorative wrought-iron finials. Coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings. Chamferred reveals to all openings. Shoulder-arched openings to shop; cast-iron columns between windows; 2-leaf timber panelled storm door with plate glass fanlight to centre. Moulded cill courses at 1st and 3rd floors; bipartite windows to 1st and 2nd floors and in right bay to 3rd; those to left at 1st and 2nd in corbelled out 2-storey section; bracketted cornice to 1st. Moulded depressed arch to 1st floor window to right. Corbelled course at 3rd floor cill level; hoodmoulded tripartite to left; shields in gables.
4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Stone skews. Grey slates. Corniced ridge stacks with decorative circular cans.
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