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32 India Street, Edinburgh

A Category A Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.956 / 55°57'21"N

Longitude: -3.2063 / 3°12'22"W

OS Eastings: 324776

OS Northings: 674316

OS Grid: NT247743

Mapcode National: GBR 8LD.0F

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.QKCF

Plus Code: 9C7RXQ4V+9F

Entry Name: 32 India Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 32 India Street, Including Railings and Lamp

Listing Date: 3 October 1967

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 368422

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29138

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 32 India Street

ID on this website: 200368422

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Terrace house

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Description

William and Lewis A Wallace, 1819-23. 3-storey and basement, 3-bay tenement in terraced site. Polished sandstone ashlar; polished V-jointed rustication at principal floor; broached ashlar at basement. (Former) cill course at 1st floor, windows extended down; cill course at 2nd floor; band course to principal and 1st floors; cornice and blocking course to 2nd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: round-arched doorpiece in bay to left at principal floor; recessed flush-panelled door with radial fanlight. Windows in centre and right bays; regular fenestration to floors above; blind window centred at 2nd floor. Cast-iron balconies in bays at 1st floor; architraved windows with cornices at 1st floor. Flagged basement area, with coped rubble retaining walls; vertically boarded timber door to cellar.

12-pane timber sash and case windows; cills lowered at 1st floor. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Random rubble gablehead stack with broached ashlar dressings; coped with circular cans. Coped skew.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1997.

RAILINGS AND LAMP: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with fleur-de-lis balusters and pineapple finials. Cast-iron railing-mounted lamp with glass globe.

Statement of Interest

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.

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