3 and 5 Canongate, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Tenement. 2 related planning applications.
3 and 5 Canongate, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- second-lead-yew
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- Tenement
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dating from around 1690, four-storey and attic, five-bay tenement with three crowstepped wallhead gables and shop at ground floor. Alterations around 1895 by Simon and Tweedie. Restored in 1976 by Robert Hurd and Partners. Situated on prominent corner site opposite Palace of Holyrood and the Scottish Parliament.
Constructed in harled rubble. Raised cills. Internal turnpike stair to central bay with a boarded timber door at ground floor. Two-window wallhead gables, each with a single garret window at the apex, flanking a single window wallhead gable. Four-bay to rear (north) elevation, some narrow openings at first and second floors, gable to third bay.
Slated roof. Tall end chimneystacks with clay cans, that to west end is broad and shouldered and that to east end is a narrow pair. Crowstepped skews and skewputs. Cast iron rainwater goods.
Interior: turnpike stair at centre and front of building. Understood to have been comprehensively refurbished following restoration in 1976.
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