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1-5 Canongate, Jedburgh

A Category C Listed Building in Jedburgh, Scottish Borders

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.4775 / 55°28'39"N

Longitude: -2.555 / 2°33'18"W

OS Eastings: 365015

OS Northings: 620553

OS Grid: NT650205

Mapcode National: GBR B5L3.M8

Mapcode Global: WH8YH.QLJ6

Plus Code: 9C7VFCHV+2X

Entry Name: 1-5 Canongate, Jedburgh

Listing Name: 1-5 (Odd Nos) Canongate (Includes the Mercat Cafe)

Listing Date: 23 March 1993

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 380056

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB35472

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200380056

Location: Jedburgh

County: Scottish Borders

Town: Jedburgh

Electoral Ward: Jedburgh and District

Traditional County: Roxburghshire

Tagged with: Tenement

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Description

James pearson Alison, dated 1893; 1960s shopfront. 3-storey and attic 3-bay tenement with shop at ground on corner site at Market Place. Snecked and stugged ashlar with polished ashlar margins; chamfered lintels and cills.

N (MARKET PLACE) ELEVATION: 3-bay polished black granite shopfront of picture windows with 3-pane strips above; door in left section of right hand window; moulded cornice. Upper storeys with single window at centre, tripartite windows flanking; 2nd storey windows with cornices, 3rd storey windows up against moulded ashlar eaves. Tile hung box dormers to each bay, outer ones bipartite.

W ELEVATION: 3-storey single bay gable end. Shop front continued from N elevation at ground, large plate glass window to left, door opening to right, now also window. Corniced bipartite window above. Single window at 3rd storey with carved cill and segmental pediment and cresting breaking into gable; pediment dated 1893. Gablehead stack.

Timber sash and case plate glass windows. Ashlar skews and skewputts moulded as eaves; grey slates; coped ashlar stacks. Cast-iron guttering moulded as eaves.

INTERIOR: intact 1960s cafe

Statement of Interest

Built as a shop and house for William Henderson at a cost of $1,174 by George Laidlaw, builder.

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