Publication Account
Date 1951
Event ID 1097676
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1097676
27. 209-213 High Street.
This rubble-built tenement, six storeys and an attic in height, faces the street and includes at street level a modern shop and the entry to Jackson's Close. The facade above, containing five good windows with back-set margins on each floor, a cavetto-moulded eaves course, and scrolled skew-puts at the wall-head, represents a remodelling of about 1700. More recently both of the chimney-stalks have been renewed in brick. The interior has been modernised.
Extending northwards from this tenement are two others in sequence, bounded on the W. by Lyon's Close and on the E. by Jackson's Close. The more southerly of these, comprising a cellarage and two upper floors, has slightly chamfered arrises at the voids, and may be as late as the 18th century. The interior, without any interest but for some panelling of late Georgian type, is now used as a store. The more northerly, five storeys in height, seems to date from the late 17th century, but has undergone alteration both in the century following and recently. Neither interior nor exterior calls for any remark.
RCAHMS 1951
