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Latitude: 55.9457 / 55°56'44"N
Longitude: -3.2022 / 3°12'7"W
OS Eastings: 325015
OS Northings: 673172
OS Grid: NT250731
Mapcode National: GBR 8LJ.V3
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.STB9
Plus Code: 9C7RWQWX+74
Entry Name: Main Point, 2-4 High Riggs, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 4 High Riggs, Main Point
Listing Date: 12 December 1974
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 370891
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30116
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 2-4 High Riggs, Main Point
ID on this website: 200370891
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Circa 1770, with later additions. 3-storey 3-sided classical building on trapezoid site (now public house to ground floor). 3 bays to NW and SE; 3-storey tripartite canted bay to junction. Droved ashlar with polished dressings, painted at ground floor. Base course, mutuled dividing band between ground and 1st, cill course to 1st, eaves course; long and short quoins.
NW (FOUNTAINBRIDGE) ELEVATION: 4 openings (those to right blocked) to ground floor, flanked by paired Ionic pilasters (see Notes); 3 windows to 1st and 2nd floors.
NE ELEVATION: piend-roofed canted bay; 2-leaf timber panelled door flanked by Ionic pilasters in centre with scrolled pediment above; modern fixed windows to sides; corniced windows in moulded surrounds to 1st floor, consoled to centre; dentilled dividing band between 1st and 2nd floors (see notes); 2nd floor regularly fenestrated; slated dormer to attic.
SE (HIGH RIGGS) ELEVATION: door to centre; windows to right blocked; otherwise regularly fenestrated; slated dormer to attic.
INTERIOR: reputedly very high quality interior at 1st floor to NE.
Pub frontage (1897) and extra storey added to canted bay (1906), both by J Macintyre Henry. The building forms an important feature at a junction which was historically very important, and is still visually so.
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