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40 Bath Street, Edinburgh

A Category C Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9544 / 55°57'15"N

Longitude: -3.1116 / 3°6'41"W

OS Eastings: 330690

OS Northings: 674047

OS Grid: NT306740

Mapcode National: GBR 2C.XWD4

Mapcode Global: WH6SN.5LKM

Plus Code: 9C7RXV3Q+Q9

Entry Name: 40 Bath Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 40 Bath Street

Listing Date: 14 December 1970

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 363746

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26870

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200363746

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Portobello/Craigmillar

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: House

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Description

Circa 1820 with later additions and alterations. 2-storey, 3-bay symmetrical classical house of painted, droved ashlar, polished ashlar dressings, rubble side and rear elevations. Base course, cill course to 1st floor, cornice.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: segmental-arched door with panelled ashlar flanks, at centre, panelled door, semicircular radial fanlight. Quasi-Venetian windows flanking at ground with blind sidelights.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: harled single storey extension spanning bays and projecting at bay to left.

Plate glass round-arched timber sash and case windows; modern plate glass swing casement windows to 1st floor. Grey graded slate roof, slate roofed extensions to rear. Rendered stacks to gable ends.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1994.

BOUNDARY WALLS: squared rendering with coping to front.

Statement of Interest

The building dates from before 1824, and according to W Baird, the street was first feued for building purposes in 1802, but was not developed until the 1820s. To the rear of No 40 is a harled L-plan building which dates, (according to surviving documents in the Dean of Guild archives), from 1913.

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