Publication Account
Date 1951
Event ID 1097249
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1097249
100. Holyrood Brewery, 124 Canongate.
Immediately E. of Wilson's Court a substantial, oblong tenement of late 17th-century date presents. its side to the Canongate. Obviously once a building of some distinction, it now retains little that is of interest. The rubble front is five storeys high, but the top floor, which is surmounted by a cornice and battlements, is quite modern. The lower part of the S.W. corner was originally recessed beneath an encorbelment, probably to admit the passage of a forestair, but the cavity has been filled in. On the ground floor seven openings are traceable, four of them windows and the other three doorways. Above the traces of the second doorway from the W. a moulded cornice, which may be the surviving fragment of a string-course, supports an empty panel-space surmounted by a triangular pediment. which bears the date 1685 in the tympanum. On. each of the three original floors above were seven windows, of which four are still open on each tier.
RCAHMS 1951
