Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

156-166 (EVEN NOS) HIGH STREETLB29071

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
14/12/1970
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 25851 73609
Coordinates
325851, 673609

Description

1825 incorporating earlier fabric (see Notes). 5-storey, 7-bay tenement with distinctive round-arched window treatment to 1st floor right. Pilastered timber shops-fronts to ground. Ashlar (painted at 1st floor). Raised cills. Langley-Gothick doorway at No 156 inscribed 'Mary's Chapel'. Narrow round-arched pend opening to centre leading to Covenant Close. 5 round-arched openings with Y-tracery glazing to 1st floor right alternating in size with balustraded, pilastered and corniced moulding to centre 3 bays. Pair of bi-partite piended dormers to left and pair of single dormers to right.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Scottish slate. Particularly broad brick and ashlar stacks. Clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

Statement of Special Interest

No 156-166 is a simple and refined traditional tenement building that contributes significantly to the fine run of tenements situated on the South side of the High Street. Reconstructed after the fire of 1824, this elegant tenement block provides considerable streetscape interest. The round arched 1st floor section is of particular interest. It retains its original glazing and balustrading at cill level and was formerly the High Street Post Office.

The High Street is located at the heart of the Old Town and has World Heritage Site status. Historically the central focus of public, civic and commercial life within the city, the High Street contains many of Edinburgh's most distinguished buildings including St Giles Kirk and Parliament Hall (see separate listings). Its special architectural and historic interest as one of Edinburgh's primary thoroughfares is unparalleled.

List description updated at resurvey (2007/08).

References

Bibliography

John Wood's Map of Edinburgh (1820). 1st Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1859). E J MacRae, The Royal Mile (1962) p41. John Gifford et al, Buildings of Scotland - Edinburgh, (1991) p2. Charles McKean, Edinburgh - An Illustrated Architectural Guide (1992) p29.

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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