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Latitude: 55.9733 / 55°58'23"N
Longitude: -3.1911 / 3°11'28"W
OS Eastings: 325757
OS Northings: 676233
OS Grid: NT257762
Mapcode National: GBR 8P6.36
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.Y4K3
Plus Code: 9C7RXRF5+8G
Entry Name: Taap Hall, 219 Ferry Road, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 219 (PF1 & 2, 1F1 & 2, 2F1 & 2) Ferry Road, Taap Hall with Boundary Walls and Outbuildings; EH6 4NN
Listing Date: 19 December 1979
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 363890
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26975
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200363890
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Leith Walk
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Tenement
Dated 1790. Symmetrical, 3-storey 7-bay tenement. Cream droved sandstone ashlar with some polished dressings; rubble to gables and rear. Regular fenestration.
N (FERRY ROAD) ELEVATION: base course; band course above ground floor; cill course to 1st floor; dentilled cornice and blocking course. Long and short ashlar quoins. Centre bay slightly recessed; asymmetrical 2-leaf flush-panelled doors with blind fanlight, moulded architrave and consoled cornice. Gable end elevations with windows at centre.
6-bay rear elevation.
12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slates; rendered stacks; ashlar coped skews.
INTERIOR: common stair with plain cast-iron handrail; 2 flats to each floor with flush-panelled doors and 3-pane fanlights.
BOUNDARY WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS: low coped rubble wall to front with ashlar base for railings running to front door and enclosing front gardens; no railings remain. Range of 8 lean-to outbuildings against W wall (1 without roof) with stone doorway to street and door in screen wall to garden.
The building was originally owned, and presumably built, by a Dutch shipmaster called Thomas Taap.
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