Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

1-5 (ODD NOS) HIGH STREET AND 1 JEFFREY STREETLB29031

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
13/08/1987
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 26127 73713
Coordinates
326127, 673713

Description

George Beattie and Sons, 1873. Symmetrical 4-storey and attic Scots Baronial corner tenement block with public house at ground; 3 bays to High Street, 3 to Jeffrey Street; canted corner bay with balustraded attic balcony. Painted sandstone at ground, squared and snecked bull-faced sandstone above with polished margins. Shouldered openings to ground floor; moulded cill courses and bracketed cornices to 1st and 2nd floors; machicolated corbel table to attic floor.

MIRRORED S AND E ELEVATIONS: pedimented gablets to outer bays (that to E corbelled out at 2nd floor, fish-scale slated pyramidal roof with weathervane behind). Crowstepped gables with apex stacks to inner 2 bays (carved monogram to E dated 1873).

CORNER BAY: 2-leaf timber panelled door in round-arched surround with key-blocked lugged architrave; 3-storey oriel corbelled out above; finialled, crowstepped gable to attic with glazed doors to balcony and small gabletted opening above.

Predominantly 4-pane timber sash and case glazing; modern plate glass with modern timber architraves to public house. Grey slate roofs. Corniced wallhead stacks; circular clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: original plain cornicing to public house interior.

Statement of Special Interest

Built by William and Duncan McGregor who also constructed the adjoining tenement at Nos 7, 9 and 11 High Street (separately listed) for George Beattie and Sons in 1873. The block is a good example of the Baronial style on an imposing corner site in the Old Town, at the junction of the High Street and Canongate, Jeffrey Street and St Mary's Street. The buildings opposite and adjacent are of similar date and illustrate the preferred architectural style employed as part of the 1867 Improvement Act that replaced slum tenements with model Baronial examples.

References

Bibliography

Edinburgh City Archive, Dean of Guild plans dated 1873. Appears on 1877 OS map. Edinburgh City Archive, Dean of Guild alteration plans (conversion to public house) by Dick, Peddie, McKay and Jamieson dated 11.2.1949. Edinburgh World Heritage Trust EDINBURGH OLD TOWN STUDY RECORDS (1989).

About Listed Buildings

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We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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