Description

Circa 1851-52, continuous in design with above. 4-storey astylar classic terrace of tenements comprising 3 blocks, nos 51-59 and 67-77 9-window with slightly advanced ground floor shops having dentilled cornices, nos 61-65 have originally been rusticated at ground floor with consoled 1st floor cills above and have not had shops, 11-window frontage, all slightly stepped in slope. 1 tripartite bay quadrant corner and 4-window front to Lutton place, consoled doorpiece and ground floor windows, 3-window quadrant to East Preston Street. Architraved windows with cornices at 1st, main cornice at 3rd floor level, secondary cornice and blocking course at top. Slated roofs.

Statement of Interest

Following the completion of the South Bridge in 1788, which linked the northern New Town and the Southside of Edinburgh, tenemental development in the Southside expanded considerably.

Clerk Street was laid out from circa 1800 as Nicolson Street was extended to form the main approach to the city from the south. South Clerk Street was developed on Robert Preston's estate from circa 1830. The street linked tenements on Clerk Street to the suburb of Newington, which had been laid out for development from the early nineteenth century. The tenement range of 51-77 Clerk Street appears on Bartholomew's Post Office Directory map of 1865.

Listed building record and statutory address updated (2015). Previously listed as '51-77 Clerk Street South'.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17799875

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