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Latitude: 55.9504 / 55°57'1"N
Longitude: -3.1867 / 3°11'11"W
OS Eastings: 325993
OS Northings: 673681
OS Grid: NT259736
Mapcode National: GBR 8QG.0F
Mapcode Global: WH6SM.0PTP
Plus Code: 9C7RXR27+58
Entry Name: 123 High Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 123 High Street
Listing Date: 9 September 1988
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 368223
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29040
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 123 High Street
ID on this website: 200368223
Early 18th century, with later alterations and incorporating earlier fabric. Part of tenement reduced in height circa 1970 (see Notes); now 2 storeys. Ground floor painted channelled ashlar; modern 3-bay shopfront; door to basement at outer right; 4-bay 1st floor above band course rendered with raised chamfered ashlar margins; regular fenestration; modern timber doors. Rubble built-in pend of North Gray's Close.
N (REAR) ELEVATION: 3-storey 2-bay random rubble-built; roll-moulded doorway (possibly 16th century); 2nd doorway to right; chamfered ashlar window margins; lowest large window has lowered cill.
Plate glass timber sash and case windows; modern plate glass shop windows; some replacement glazing to rear. Modern roof behind continuous timber fascia.
INTERIOR: not seen 2002.
This form of tenement was a typical sight on the High Street during the period but relatively few examples have survived. The early 18th century Morocco Land in the Canongate (rebuilt by Robert Hurd in 1956-7) is comparable. North Gray's Close and the long, narrow burgage plots extending to the rear of the High Street conform to the mediaeval town plan and this pattern can still be discerned on the site.
Photographs in the NMRS collection (ED/5048, ED/ 5049) dated 1970 show the 5-storey and attic 4-bay tenement still intact prior to its demolition circa 1970 which left only the ground and first floors standing.
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