St. Mary’s Wynd
Beyond the Cowane Mansion, the lower part of St. Mary’s Wynd retains a few old houses. There is an attractive crowstepped group on the cast side, at the corner of Irvine Place, while the Red Lion Inn opposite has a carved panel over the door bearing the initials 1 A . E G and the date 1733. The initiate are thought to refer to Provost James Alexander and his wife.
72-74 St. Mary’s Wynd
Pleasant pair of two-storeyed houses. The doorway of No. 74 is of unusual interest, being of early eighteenth century design, delicately moulded, and surmounted by a scrolled pediment and round-headed window. The whole group forms a most attractive composition of a period all too rarely represented in Scottish burgh architecture. Its importance is further enhanced by the fact that it is now virtually the only feature left to suggest that the main part of St. Mary’s Wynd is a creation of more than the last thirty years.