Morocco Land, 265-267 Canongate, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Tenement. 1 related planning application.
Morocco Land, 265-267 Canongate, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- north-cellar-bone
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- Tenement
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Late 17th/early 18th century, rebuilt Robert Hurd, 1956-7. 4-storey and attic 4-bay tenement with shop to ground floor; central wallhead gable with apex stack and flanking dormers; central segmental-arched pend to right. Random rubble with polished dressings, ashlar to ground floor. String course between ground and 1st floors. Regularly fenestrated; raised margins, chamfered openings and relieving arches to windows. Earlier carved effigy (see Notes) to left between 1st and 2nd floors. 6-storey 4-bay rendered block to rear; projecting 2-bay stair tower and further 2-storey section.
Timber sash and case lying-pane glazing (4-pane upper sashes, 6-pane lower) to front; tilt and pivot metal-framed glazing to rear. Plate glass to shop front. Pitched grey slate roof; slated dormer cheeks; coped skewtable. Coped end stacks with clay cans.
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