What is recorded here

Skinner's Close on Castlehill and High Street in Edinburgh stands as a tenement where the city's oldest streets still press close together. The name suggests skinners once worked nearby, their sharp smells and loud trade mixing with ordinary neighbourly life. Whether they lived above the close or merely passed through remains unknown, but the narrow name preserves their labour long after the tools disappeared.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Edinburgh, Castlehill, High Street, Skinner's Close as Tenement (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

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