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Latitude: 55.9486 / 55°56'55"N
Longitude: -3.2058 / 3°12'21"W
OS Eastings: 324792
OS Northings: 673502
OS Grid: NT247735
Mapcode National: GBR 8LH.32
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.QRL2
Plus Code: 9C7RWQXV+FM
Entry Name: 3, 4 Castle Terrace, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 3 and 4 Castle Terrace, Including Boundary Wall and Railings
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 366428
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28481
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200366428
Circa 1831. 3-storey, attic and basement 6-bay classical quadrant tenement block (modern shop built out over basement area to No 3). Cream ashlar, channelled at ground. Dividing bands between basement and ground and between ground and 1st floors; moulded eaves cornice. Cill course and moulded and corniced architraves to 1st floor windows; moulded surrounds to 2nd. Stone steps and platts over-arching basement area; timber panelled doors with plate glass fanlights in 1st and 4th bays from left. Slate-hung dormers with tripartite windows to attic.
8-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Corniced stacks with circular cans.
BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS: spear-headed cast-iron railings on low ashlar boundary wall.
Built on the glebe of St Cuthbert's Church. William Burn produced a feuing plan for the Grindlay Estate in 1825, taking in the glebe. The plan of this area more or less as built appears on Wood's 1820 map of Edinburgh. Thomas Hamilton produced elevations for Castle Terrace in 1825, Burn in 1826. The original design may have been intended to mirror the pavilion at Nos 1 and 2 Castle Terrace, with the quadrant block of Nos 3 and 4 continued as a straight block between. However Bryce's St Mark's Unitarian Church, built in 1834, intervened. The roadway, altered to take account of the new Western Approach, was laid in 1831.
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