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Latitude: 55.9744 / 55°58'27"N
Longitude: -3.1836 / 3°11'0"W
OS Eastings: 326230
OS Northings: 676344
OS Grid: NT262763
Mapcode National: GBR 8Q5.MT
Mapcode Global: WH6SM.2388
Plus Code: 9C7RXRF8+QH
Entry Name: 8 South Fort Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 8 and 10 South Fort Street with Front Steps and Railings; EH6 4DN
Listing Date: 30 March 1994
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 364587
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27421
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 8 South Fort Street
ID on this website: 200364587
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Leith Walk
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Terrace house
Circa 1815. Mirrored pair of 2-storey, basement and attic 3-bay classical terraced houses. Cream ashlar sandstone with polished dressings; rock-faced at basement; polished ashlar rustication at ground; droved to 1st floor. Base course and band course at ground; cill course to 1st floor; cornice and blocking course. Regular fenestration; fluted aprons to 1st floor windows. Steps to panelled deep-set doors to inner bays; rectangular fanlights (fan glazing to
No 10). Dormers; piended to No 10 (one canted); flat-roofed to No 8
(1 tripartite, 1 bipartite).
3-bay basements with doors at centre.
Plate glass timber sash and case glazing. Grey slates; ashlar coped stacks.
Lobbies with decorative glazed tripartite vestibule screens; No 8 with Roman Doric frieze; No 10 with Adamesque reliefs.
STEPS AND RAILINGS: ashlar steps and saddleback base for cast-iron spearhead railings.
Fragment of wider scheme including 1-7 South Fort Street (see separate listings).
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