Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

JEFFREY STREET, WALL, VAULTS, RAILINGS AND PIERLB49085

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
24/01/2003
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 26082 73788
Coordinates
326082, 673788

Description

Circa 1875. Curved retaining wall to falling ground at N of Jeffrey Street, with round-arched vaults beneath (to East Market Street) diminishing in size from E to W with fall of street. Abuts tenement at E end. Ashlar-coped squared and snecked rock-cut sandstone; rusticated voussoirs to vaults. Moulded string course to E. Cast-iron railings, bowed stays and finials to recessed section to W. Corniced octagonal sandstone terminal pier to W end (possibly previously lamp standard), topped by modern wrought-iron flower. Boarded timber doors to vaults; brick infill with louvred openings to arches to E, some fretted ventilation panels to W.

Statement of Special Interest

Jeffrey Street was formed under the City Improvement Act of 1867. The building of Jeffrey Street necessitated the demolition of many old houses at the top of the former Leith Wynd and in the closes to SW. Below the street was the site of Trinity College Church, founded by Mary of Gueldres in 1460 and demolished by the North British Railway Company to make way for the railway line into Waverley Station (partially rebuilt in Chalmers Close by John Lessels in 1872), and of the original Physic Garden. The original intention was to continue the building line on the NE side of the street, but after a public outcry (see Cockburn Society minute, and letter from the RSA [secretary J Dick Peddie], pointing to the deleterious effect 'not merely on the amenity of Jeffrey Street,' but also on the views approaching the city by rail from the S, from Waterloo Place and from the North Bridge) it was decided not to build on the N side of the street, and the site was ceded to the North British Railway Company by the Town Council and the Improvement Trust on condition that any building on the site 'shall not exceed in height the finished level of the carriageway of Jeffrey Street.'

References

Bibliography

Appears on 1877 OS map. Minute of meeting of Council of Cockburn Association, 13th December 1875. Edinburgh City Archives; City Improvement Trust Minute Books, 1875. Grant OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH (1885) p290.

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