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Latitude: 55.9569 / 55°57'24"N
Longitude: -3.2022 / 3°12'7"W
OS Eastings: 325035
OS Northings: 674419
OS Grid: NT250744
Mapcode National: GBR 8LD.V3
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.SJBP
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ4X+Q4
Entry Name: 31, 33, 35, 37 Howe Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 31-37 (Odd Nos) Howe Street, Including Railings
Listing Date: 10 November 1966
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 368393
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29114
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 31, 33, 35, 37 Howe Street
ID on this website: 200368393
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, 9-bay terraced tenement. Band course at principal floor; band course and cill course at 1st floor; band course and cornice at 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 6-panel timber common stair door in 4th bay from right, with blind rectangular fanlight; round-arched doorpieces in bays 3rd from right and 3rd from left, comprising 6-panel timber doors with radial, semicircular fanlights. Windows in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above, and to basement. Flagged basement area.
N ELEVATION: obscured by adjoining terrace, see separate listing (45-89 Great King Street).
S ELEVATION: obscured by adjoining terrace, see separate listing (25-29 Howe Street).
12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Broached ridge stacks, random rubble and rendered gablehead stacks; coped, with circular cans. Coped skews.
INTERIORS: not seen, 1997.
RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by iron railings with spear-headed balusters and pineapple finials.
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 in1808.
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