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St John Street St John street
St John street St John Street
St John StreetSt John Street

21 St John Street, Edinburgh

In October 2001 and in September to October 2003, an architectural assessment was carried out at 21 St John Street, Edinburgh for The Priory of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. The assessment was conducted during stabilisation works at the site and revealed substantial elements of a 16th or 17th century back tenement property. There had been five phases of subsequent alteration, most notably around the time of the laying out of St John Street in the later 18th century, when a classically proportioned frontage was formed. This phase also included the addition of an upper storey, the existing roof structure and many of the surviving internal features.