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Latitude: 55.9477 / 55°56'51"N
Longitude: -3.1944 / 3°11'39"W
OS Eastings: 325505
OS Northings: 673379
OS Grid: NT255733
Mapcode National: GBR 8NH.FF
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.XR1T
Plus Code: 9C7RWRX4+36
Entry Name: 81, 83 Grassmasket, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 81 Grassmarket
Listing Date: 12 June 1996
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 395261
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB47871
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 81, 83 Grassmasket
ID on this website: 200395261
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
John Lessels, 1875. 4-storey 2-bay tenement block with Scots Baronial details; shops to ground floor; 3rd floor windows in gabletted crowstepped gables with decorative wrought-iron finials. Coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings. Chamferred reveals to all openings. Shoulder-arched openings to shop; cast-iron columns between windows; 2-leaf timber panelled storm door with plate glass fanlight to centre. Moulded cill courses at 1st and 3rd floors; bipartite windows to 1st and 2nd floors and in right bay to 3rd; those to left at 1st and 2nd in corbelled out 2-storey section; bracketted cornice to 1st. Moulded depressed arch to 1st floor window to right. Corbelled course at 3rd floor cill level; hoodmoulded tripartite to left; shields in gables.
4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Stone skews. Grey slates. Corniced ridge stacks with decorative circular cans.
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