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7, 7A Hopetoun Crescent, Edinburgh

A Category A Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9613 / 55°57'40"N

Longitude: -3.1846 / 3°11'4"W

OS Eastings: 326143

OS Northings: 674889

OS Grid: NT261748

Mapcode National: GBR 8QB.FJ

Mapcode Global: WH6SM.1FSB

Plus Code: 9C7RXR68+G5

Entry Name: 7, 7A Hopetoun Crescent, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 7, 7A, 8 and 8A Hopetoun Crescent and Railings

Listing Date: 25 November 1965

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 368343

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29098

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200368343

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Leith Walk

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Robert Brown, building 1827. 2-storey with basement and attic 6-bay terraced pair (see notes). Sandstone ashlar (stone cleaned) with rubble to side and rear elevations. Base course, aprons to ground floor windows, continuous decorative iron balcony at 1st floor, tall corniced and architraved windows to 1st floor, eaves band and blocking course, cornices removed ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

SE(PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: architraved door-pieces each to left of 3 bays with fanlights, windows to bays remaining, colonnade of coupled fluted Ionic columns at ground, regular fenestration above, 4 box dormers.

SW (GABLE) ELEVATION: blank gable wall.

NE (GABLE) ELEVATION: blank gable wall.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: 6 bays grouped 2-1-2-1, 4-storey, 3 single storey projections at ground with windows, regularly fenestrated above.

Timber sash and case windows with 12-pane glazing at ground and 15-pane glazing at 1st floor, grey slates, gablehead and ashlar ridge stacks with terracotta cans, skews with moulded skewputts, unusually designed fleur-de-lys and harp cast-iron railings.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

Statement of Interest

Originally Hope Crescent. Designed by Brown in 1825 and begun as a speculation by the architect Patrick Wilson, originally to be a complete crescent but in the end only 7, 8, 17, and 18 were built. The EEC declared 'feuing plans of grounds of Leith Walk are now ready for inspection of builders etc. May be seen at Robert Burn (sic) architect, 82 Rose Street.'

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