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Latitude: 55.9528 / 55°57'10"N
Longitude: -3.2067 / 3°12'24"W
OS Eastings: 324746
OS Northings: 673964
OS Grid: NT247739
Mapcode National: GBR 8KF.YL
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.QM6W
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ3V+48
Entry Name: 1 North Charlotte Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 1 North Charlotte Street with Railings and Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 3 March 1966
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 366506
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28508
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200366506
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Circa 1790. 3-storey basement and attic, 3-bay classical former house. Broached cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. V-jointed rustication at ground floor. Tripartite pilastered doorpiece with fluted frieze and rectangular radiating fanlight. 1st floor cill course; eaves cornice.
4-bay ashlar gable end with blind windows and arched stair windows to inner right bay; 2 attic windows.
Coursed rubble rear elevation with projecting bow to S; additions at 1st floor.
Timber sash and case 12-pane windows. Ashlar coped skews; stone stacks; grey slates.
INTERIOR: not seen 1995.
RAILINGS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: cast-iron spearhead railings; rubble boundary walls to rear.
Built together with Nos 2-4, note especially the doorpieces; these houses provide an important introduction to Charlotte Square. A significant surviving part of the original fabric of Edinburgh?s New Town, one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain.
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