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13 James' Court, 501 Lawnmarket, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9495 / 55°56'58"N

Longitude: -3.1942 / 3°11'39"W

OS Eastings: 325520

OS Northings: 673579

OS Grid: NT255735

Mapcode National: GBR 8NG.GS

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.XQ3F

Plus Code: 9C7RWRX4+Q8

Entry Name: 13 James' Court, 501 Lawnmarket, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 497-499 Lawnmarket and 7 and 11 James Court

Listing Date: 14 December 1970

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 368615

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29235

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200368615

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Late 18th century. 5-storey and attic 5-bay tenement with pilastraded shops to ground floor. Grey ashlar, painted to ground; rubble to rear. Continuous mutuled cornice to shops; eaves course. Regularly fenestrated. Projecting cills. 2 slated piend-roofed dormers to attic to front and rear. Later single storey harled building to rear.

12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Tall corniced stacks (brick to left, rendered to right) with circular cans.

Statement of Interest

In 1723-7 James Brownhill (following the precedent of Robert Mylne at Milne's Court) demolished closes running N/S to form a square court, building a tall double tenement to the N (all but the E section of which was destroyed in a fire in 1857), but leaving the old buildings facing the Lawnmarket. Those to the W of Gladstone's Land were replaced circa 1795.

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