1, 2 and 3 Greyfriars Place Edinburgh, Scotland
Listed Building Data
1, 2 and 3 Greyfriars Place 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 353196 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 18972
- Canmore ID
- 123498
- Category
- B
- Name
- 1, 2 and 3 Greyfriars Place
- Parish
- Edinburgh
- County
- Edinburgh, City Of
- Easting
- 325692
- Northing
- 673266
- Date Listed
- 8 May 1975
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Earlier 19th century, incorporating earlier fabric. 4-storey 4-bay tenement with shops at ground floor, bowed to corner at entrance to Greyfriars churchyard. Coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings; ashlar (painted) to ground floor; rubble to side and rear. Cill courses at 1st and 3rd floors. Moulded projecting eaves cornice. Windows in moulded surrounds. E (GREYFRIARS PLACE) ELEVATION: timber panelled door with border glazed fanlight flanked by shop windows with border glazing to right; 2-leaf timber panelled door with blocked fanlight flanked by windows with modern glazing to left. Regularly fenestrated above. W (REAR) ELEVATION: irregularly fenestrated. 2 gabled dormers with bracketed skews to attic. Mylne monument (Greyfriars Churchyard, separately listed) adjoins at ground. Predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates; corniced cement rendered stacks with circular cans at wallhead and ridge.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
B group comprises Nos 1-5 Forrest Road, 1-3 Greyfriars Place, 4-6 Greyfriars Place, 30-34 Candlemaker Row (Greyfriars Bobby's Bar, 36-42 Candlemaker Row (including Candlemaker Hall), 44 Candlemaker Row, 46-48 Candlemaker Row, 50-54 Candlemaker Row, 56 and 56A Candlemaker Row and 58-64 Candlemaker Row. Rear elevation important to setting of Greyfriars Churchyard. There was a building on this site from the early 18th century, and although the Greyfriars Place elevation was rebuilt in the early 19th century, the rear probably incorporates this earlier building. The Dean of Guild drawings are an application to build this building and the 2 shops built out at ground floor at Nos 4, 5 and 6 Greyfriars Place. An illustration in Wilson's MEMORIALS of 'Greyfriars before the fire of 1845' shows the earlier building.
Listed Building References
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Dean of Guild 24th May 1849. Wilson MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH IN THE OLDEN TIME (1847). Gifford, McWilliam and Walker EDINBURGH (1984) p 228.
