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Latitude: 55.951 / 55°57'3"N
Longitude: -3.2065 / 3°12'23"W
OS Eastings: 324754
OS Northings: 673762
OS Grid: NT247737
Mapcode National: GBR 8KG.Z7
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.QP88
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ2V+99
Entry Name: 12 South Charlotte Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 12 South Charlotte Street with Railings
Listing Date: 3 March 1966
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 366511
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28516
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200366511
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Tenement
Circa 1790. 3-storey basement and attic, 5-bay former classical tenement. Droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Rusticated at ground; eaves cornice. Steps to arched tripartite pilastered doorpiece with fluted frieze and radiating fanlight at centre; steps survive to former common stair door at left, but door now blocked as window. Pair of earlier 19th century piend-roofed tripartite dormers.
Rubble gable end to S with windows at centre. Irregular 3-bay rubble rear elevation; tripartite windows to left, arched stair window at centre; full attic storey.
Timber sash and case 12-pane windows. Ashlar coped skews; rebuilt stacks, rendered to S; grey slates.
INTERIOR: tripartite timber lobby screen; 19th century timber dog-leg stair on axis. NE room at ground with pilastered sideboard recess and carved and painted chimneypiece. Common stair removed.
RAILINGS: cast-iron spearhead railings to front.
The common stair was formerly No 10. 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. South Charlotte Street is important for its contribution to the setting of Charlotte Square.
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