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Latitude: 55.9478 / 55°56'52"N
Longitude: -3.1957 / 3°11'44"W
OS Eastings: 325422
OS Northings: 673398
OS Grid: NT254733
Mapcode National: GBR 8NH.5C
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.WRDP
Plus Code: 9C7RWRX3+4P
Entry Name: 64 Grassmarket, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 60-64 (Even Nos) Grassmarket
Listing Date: 13 August 1987
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 367823
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28939
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 64 Grassmarket
ID on this website: 200367823
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Circa 1800, with alterations by John Masterton 1880 (see Notes). 5-storey 4-bay plain classical tenement with shops at ground floor. Droved ashlar (painted to ground). Cornice above shops; polished cill band to 1st and 3rd floors; projecting cills to 2nd; eaves cornice and blocking course. Shop front to left with decorative bracketed cornice (now in poor state, 2000); door to flats with letterbox fanlight to centre. Regular fenestration above.
12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Corniced end stacks with circular cans.
The long rectangle of Grassmarket was already a suburb and a secondary market place by 1500. After the Battle of Flodden in 1513 the city walls were strengthened and the Grassmarket and Cowgate enclosed by the Flodden Wall. Agricultural produce was sold in the Grassmarket until well into the 20th century; old photographs show up-ended carts and the bars and hostels associated with the market. It was also a place of public execution. John Masterton's alterations (for the proprietors, the Trades Maidens Hospital) included the new shop front at No 60, and conversion from one to two flats on each floor of the building.
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