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Latitude: 55.9469 / 55°56'48"N
Longitude: -3.1971 / 3°11'49"W
OS Eastings: 325333
OS Northings: 673295
OS Grid: NT253732
Mapcode National: GBR 8MH.WP
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.VSRF
Plus Code: 9C7RWRW3+P5
Entry Name: 27-29 Grassmarket, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 21-29 (Odd Nos) Grassmarket
Listing Date: 29 March 2001
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 395258
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB47868
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200395258
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
George Fox, 1859-63. 4-storey 7-bay tenement with shops to ground floor and flat-arched pend to centre (Porteous Pend). Droved ashlar with polished dressings (painted to ground). Base course, continuous fascia and cornice to ground floor; cill band to 1st floor; dividing band between 2nd and 3rd floors; eaves cornice. Stop-chamfered openings to ground floor; raised architraves to windows above; bracketed cills to 2nd floor; gabletted dormerheads with rectangular carved panels to 3rd floor windows. Original shop fronts with 2-leaf timber panelled storm doors and recessed glazed inner doors.
12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Brick stacks with circular cans.
Part of a run of traditional tenements.
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