4 and 5 Lamb's Court Edinburgh, Scotland
Listed Building Data
4 and 5 Lamb's Court has been designated a scheduled monument in Scotland with the following information. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- Historic Scotland ID
- 390295 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 43703
- Canmore ID
- 147823
- Category
- C
- Name
- 4 and 5 Lamb's Court
- Parish
- Edinburgh
- County
- Edinburgh, City Of
- Easting
- 325507
- Northing
- 677030
- Date Listed
- 17 October 1996
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Mid to later 18th century; recast and converted by Ian Lindsay & Partners, circa 1970. 2-storey; 6-bay a-symmetrical block forming S boundary to court; rear elevation to Main Street. Harled and limewashed; raised and painted concrete surrounds to openings. Exterior stairs with timber railings to 1st floor. N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: timber boarded door to ground in penultimate bay to right (No 4); storage door beneath stair. Single windows to 1st floor in bays to left and penultimate bay to right; single window to ground in bay to outer right. Stairs to 1st floor entry (No 5) aligned above No 4; timber boarded door; flanking single windows. Single windows in remaining bays to left. S (MAIN STREET) ELEVATION: 2-storey, 3-bay. Regularly fenestrated to both floors in all bays. 12-pane timber sash and case windows to both elevations. Grey slate roof; precast concrete skews. Harled apex stacks to E and W with precast concrete copes and circular cans.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
B group with Nos 1, 2 and 3 Lamb?s Court and Nos 4-8 Wester Close (see separate list entries). Both properties display characteristics typical of the Newhaven overhaul by Ian Lindsay & Partners during the 1970s. Note the harled and limewashed walls, exterior stairs, precast concrete skews and painted cement surrounds to openings. Note throughout, the retention of the Scottish fishing village vernacular (compare with Cross Wynd, Falkland or St. Moran?s, Fife - both of which were recorded by Lindsay). Despite harsh detailing and element of standardisation, the practice?s Newhaven work should be acknowledged as a pioneering attempt to conserve and improve an entire fishing village. Substantial in size, with a clear philosophy, it contrasts with more recent restoration attempts and thus, illustrates the differing and developing attitudes towards conservation. Previously No 21 and 22 Main Street.
Listed Building References
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Appears on Ordnance Survey map, 1855; PO Directories map, 1874; E J MacRae THE HERITAGE OF GREATER EDINBURGH (1947) p9 and sheet II; Gifford, McWilliam and Walker EDINBURGH (1984) p612; M Cant, VILLAGES OF EDINBURGH (1986); D Walker, ?Listing In Scotland: Origins, Survey And Resurvey? TRANSACTIONS OF THE ANCIENT MONUMENTS SOCIETY, Vol 38 p39; C Pittaway ?A NATIONAL AWAKENING?: ARCHITECTURAL PRESERVATION IN NORTH EAST FIFE 1919-1939, St Andrews Studies in the History of Scottish Architecture and Design (1993).
