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Latitude: 55.948 / 55°56'52"N
Longitude: -3.1937 / 3°11'37"W
OS Eastings: 325550
OS Northings: 673418
OS Grid: NT255734
Mapcode National: GBR 8NH.L9
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.XRCK
Plus Code: 9C7RWRX4+6G
Entry Name: Greyfriars Hostel, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 Cowgate, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 2-12 (Even Nos) Cowgate, Greyfriars Hostel
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 366809
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28597
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200366809
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Hostel
Ebenezer J McRae, 1930. 5 storey and attic 12-bay tenement/hostel, angled to street. Rough-cut ashlar to ground, rubble above, with polished dressings. Cill band to ground floor, dividing band between ground and 1st floors. 5-bay block to left: door to left and opening to stair to right in roll moulded surrounds; regularly fenestrated; narrow windows in outer right bay; 2 2-window wallhead nepus gables. 3-bay block to centre and 4-bay block to right: regularly fenestrated; narrow windows in outer bays in block to right; 2 piend-roofed dormers to each block; door in shoulder-arched surround to outer right.
12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows; modern glazing to ground. Grey slates. Corniced end stacks with circular cans.
Allegedly reproduces features of demolished block formerly occupying site.
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