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Latitude: 55.948 / 55°56'52"N
Longitude: -3.1953 / 3°11'42"W
OS Eastings: 325451
OS Northings: 673414
OS Grid: NT254734
Mapcode National: GBR 8NH.89
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.WRML
Plus Code: 9C7RWRX3+5V
Entry Name: 86, 88, 90 Grassmarket, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 86-90 (Even Nos) Grassmarket
Listing Date: 12 December 1974
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 370885
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30112
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200370885
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
John Lessels, circa 1880. 3 storey and attic 2-bay Baronial tenement with shops to ground floor. Squared and snecked bull-faced sandstone with polished dressings (painted to ground floor). String course between 1st and 2nd floors. Timber panelled door to flats at outer right; modern glazing to shops. Windows in basket-arched surrounds; bipartite mullioned windows to right, tripartite to left at 1st and 2nd floors; bipartite mullioned window in corbelled out, crowstepped gable to left; single window in ball-finialled pedimented dormerhead breaking eaves to right.
Small-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Stone skews. Corniced end stacks with circular cans.
The long rectangle of Grassmarket was already a suburb and a secondary market place by 1500. After the Battle of Flodden in 1513 the city walls were strengthened and the Grassmarket and Cowgate enclosed by the Flodden Wall. Agricultural produce was sold in the Grassmarket until well into the 20th century; old photographs show up-ended carts and the bars and hostels associated with the market. It was also a place of public execution.
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