Description

1812. 5-storey corner tenement, 5-bay elevation with rusticated ground floor to Rankeillor Street, 7-bay coursed rubble elevation to St Leonard Street. Ground floor in use as shops (2015).

Statement of Interest

Following the completion of the South Bridge in 1788 (which provided the first direct link between the New Town and the Southside of Edinburgh) the Southside of Edinburgh expanded rapidly. Nicholson Street was extended to form Clerk Street in this period. Robert Brown laid out a scheme for the estate of Dr Hope extending along Clerk Street south of St Patrick's Square. Building on Rankeillor Street and Montague Street began in 1812. The projected layout of the corner block of Rankeillor Street and St Leonard's Street appears on Kirkwood's 1817 Map of Edinburgh. The completed scheme is visible on Wood's 1823 Plan of the City of Edinburgh.

Listed building record and statutory address updated (2015). Previously listed as 'Rankeillor Street, 54 and 45-55 St Leonards Street'.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17805171

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)