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Latitude: 55.9437 / 55°56'37"N
Longitude: -3.1837 / 3°11'1"W
OS Eastings: 326168
OS Northings: 672931
OS Grid: NT261729
Mapcode National: GBR 8QJ.MT
Mapcode Global: WH6SM.2V7V
Plus Code: 9C7RWRV8+FG
Entry Name: 1, 2 St Patrick Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 1 and 2 St Patrick Street and 23 West Crosscauseway
Listing Date: 10 October 2007
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 370111
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29739
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200370111
William Archibald, circa 1780. 4-storey and attic, 4- by 5-bay corner tenement with 3-bay nepus gable to N (West Crosscauseway) elevation and 20th century shop front at ground. Coursed Hailes sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Regular fenestration with projecting cills and raised tabbed margins. Rusticated long and short quoins. Replacement door to tenement in roll moulded, corniced architrave to N elevation. Pair of piended dormers to attic.
12-pane glazing set in timber sash and case windows. Coped ashlar gablehead and ridge stacks with clay cans. Grey slate.
A prominent 18th century tenement, making a good contribution to the streetscape of one of Edinburgh's principal thoroughfares. The Southside was developed from the mid 18th century, and Lady Nicolson offered building feus along Nicolson Street from 1757.
According to the Buildings of Scotland volume for Edinburgh this and the opposite tenement, 6 St Patrick Street (see separate listing) were built by a slater, William Archibald in around 1780.
The projecting quoins and rubble construction suggest the building may have been harled.
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