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Latitude: 55.9561 / 55°57'22"N
Longitude: -3.2018 / 3°12'6"W
OS Eastings: 325060
OS Northings: 674329
OS Grid: NT250743
Mapcode National: GBR 8LD.YD
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.SKJB
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ4X+C7
Entry Name: 15, 17 Howe Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 15 and 17 Howe Street, Including Railings
Listing Date: 10 November 1966
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 368388
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29110
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 15, 17 Howe Street
ID on this website: 200368388
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Robert Reid and William Sibbald, 1802. 4-storey and basement, 5-bay terraced tenement. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Band course and cill course at 1st floor; band course at 2nd floor; projecting cills to 2nd floor windows; blocking course at 3rd floor, with cornice removed. Entrance platts and steps oversailing basement, to outer left and right.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3-bay corniced shop front centred at principal floor, comprising recessed glazed door flanked by plate glass windows, flanked by 2-bay pilastered and corniced shop front to right, panelled door, plate glass rectangular fanlight to left, plate glass window to right; round-arched doorpiece to outer left, 9-panel timber common-stair door, with radial semicircular fanlight.
N ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (19 and 19B Howe Street).
S ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (11 and 13 Howe Street).
Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Rendered ridge stack, broached gablehead stack; coped, with circular cans. Skews.
INTERIORS: not seen 1997, but some evidence of working panelled shutters.
RAILINGS: iron railings.
Part of the Second New Town A Group, a significant surviving part of one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain.
Howe Street was part of the first extension of the New Town planned by Reid and Sibbald in 1802. Building began in 1808.
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