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Latitude: 55.9577 / 55°57'27"N
Longitude: -3.1897 / 3°11'23"W
OS Eastings: 325815
OS Northings: 674488
OS Grid: NT258744
Mapcode National: GBR 8PC.DT
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.ZJ74
Plus Code: 9C7RXR56+34
Entry Name: 56 Albany Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 56 Albany Street, Including Railings
Listing Date: 13 September 1964
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 365783
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28233
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200365783
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Manse
J T Rochhead, 1859. 2-storey, attic and basement, 2-bay gothic former manse of St Mary's Free Church. Polished ashlar sandstone. Cornice and coped parapet at 1st floor. Ashlar entrance platt oversailing basement.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: pointed-arched doorpiece with moulded reveals, panelled timber door and plate glass pointed-arched fanlight in bay to right at principal floor, with gabletted walls flanking platt to street; platt with gothic detailed boot scraper. Broad canted bay to left at basement and floors above, comprising 5 cusped tracery lights at all floors, chamfered margins, with hoodmoulds removed. Flagged basement area.
W ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (46-54 Albany Street).
E ELEVATION: adjoining modern building.
Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof. Pair of jerkin-headed slate-hung dormers, with cast-iron cross finials. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered ridge stack; coped, with circular cans. Coped skews.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1998.
RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron gothic detailed railings with quatrefoil motifs and cross finials.
Part of the Edinburgh New Town A Group. No 56 Albany Street served as the manse for St Mary's Free Church, which replaced the pavilion at the north east corner of Albany Street. The church was replaced by offices by David Le Seur Partnership, 1983.
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