Description

John Lessels, circa 1880. 3 storey and attic 2-bay Baronial tenement with shops to ground floor. Squared and snecked bull-faced sandstone with polished dressings (painted to ground floor). String course between 1st and 2nd floors. Timber panelled door to flats at outer right; modern glazing to shops. Windows in basket-arched surrounds; bipartite mullioned windows to right, tripartite to left at 1st and 2nd floors; bipartite mullioned window in corbelled out, crowstepped gable to left; single window in ball-finialled pedimented dormerhead breaking eaves to right.

Small-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Stone skews. Corniced end stacks with circular cans.

Statement of Interest

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.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17792983

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)