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10 Howden Street, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9442 / 55°56'38"N

Longitude: -3.1821 / 3°10'55"W

OS Eastings: 326269

OS Northings: 672976

OS Grid: NT262729

Mapcode National: GBR 8QJ.YP

Mapcode Global: WH6SM.3V0J

Plus Code: 9C7RWRV9+M5

Entry Name: 10 Howden Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: Howden Street 2-24 and 74-84 East Crosscauseway Fisher's Buildings

Listing Date: 29 April 1977

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 368381

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29105

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 10 Howden Street

ID on this website: 200368381

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Tenement

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Description

T P Marwick 1885-1888. Baronial 3-storey and mansard attic tenements with ground floor shops, coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and moulded openings. Slated roofs. 3 blocks stepped in slope to Howden Street, centre one with gable; right hand one with rich Early Renaissance central corbelled chimney shaft; elaborate treatment to East Crosscauseway balanced asymmetrical treatment with near-central curvilinear gable; E corner is curved, corbelled diagonally to square, flanked by colonettes with sculptured capitals at 2nd, scrolled and segmentally pedimented attic gable; W corner at Howden Street treated as octagon, diagonally corbelled to square and gabled; rich swagged gable with couch top adjacent to E corner.

Good detail, some chimneyheads in need of restoration on Howden Street.

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