Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

179 HIGH STREET AND 73 COCKBURN STREETLB30117

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
12/12/1974
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 25905 73666
Coordinates
325905, 673666

Description

John MacLachlan, 1892-3. Asymmetrical 4-storey and attic (5 storeys to Cockburn Street) Scots Baronial corner tenement with shop (former bank) and public house to ground floor; canted octagonal bay to corner, corbelled to circular turret with ball-finialled candle-snuffer roof above 3rd floor; single bay to High Street, 9 bays to Cockburn Street. Cream ashlar to ground, squared and snecked rock-cut sandstone with polished dressings above. Dentilled cornice to 3rd floor. Gabletted crowstepped gables. Roll-moulded openings.

CORNER BAY: steps to door in round-arched surround flanked by blocked fluted Ionic columns; decorative corbel and balustraded apron to window at 1st floor; scrolled pediments to 2nd floor windows; machicolation to parapet with semicircular merlons; circular cap-house with segmental-pedimented windows above.

S (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: gabled bay with tall round-arched windows to ground floor; bracketed balcony to 1st floor, monogrammed cartouche (NB); 4-storey oriel above; circular window in gable; apex stack with corbelled chimney breast.

SW (COCKBURN STREET) ELEVATION: 4-bay section to left: timber panelled door to left in corniced and consoled door piece with letterbox fanlight and Ionic colonnettes; 3 segmental-arched openings to right at ground floor; predominantly 2-light mullioned windows above; corbel table to 2nd floor; gabled dormer to attic with asymmetrical stack corbelled out to left and small dormer with shaped pediment to outer left. 2-bay gabled section to centre: 2 round-arched windows to right at ground floor, oriel window corbelled out to left; bracketed balcony to 1st floor; stone-mullioned bipartite windows to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors, those to 1st with scrolled pediments; ball-finialled bartizan to left at 4th floor; small stone-mullioned bipartite window with segmental pediment in gable. Single bay to right: 2 round-arched windows to ground floor; dormer to attic with shaped pediment.

Small-pane glazing to upper sashes, plate glass lower in timber sash and case windows. Green/grey slates. Corniced apex and ridge stacks with circular cans.

Statement of Special Interest

Built for the National Bank, just before Dunn and Findlay's huge Scotsman block. The Cockburn Street elevation of the Dunn and Findlay block is designed to blend seamlessly with that of MacLachlan's No 73 Cockburn Street.

References

Bibliography

Dean of Guild 26th June 1890. Gifford, McWilliam and Walker EDINBURGH (1984) p 203.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

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)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

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