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55, 57, 59, 61 Jeffrey Street, Edinburgh

A Category C Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9512 / 55°57'4"N

Longitude: -3.1868 / 3°11'12"W

OS Eastings: 325986

OS Northings: 673762

OS Grid: NT259737

Mapcode National: GBR 8PG.Z5

Mapcode Global: WH6SM.0PR3

Plus Code: 9C7RXR27+F7

Entry Name: 55, 57, 59, 61 Jeffrey Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 55-61 (Odd Nos) Jeffrey Street

Listing Date: 13 August 1987

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 368528

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29191

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200368528

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Robert Hamilton Paterson, 1889. 5-storey 5-bay Scots Baronial tenement with shouldered openings to ground floor, pend to outer left. Modern glazed doors to bipartite entrance with shared fanlight to centre. Segmental-arched windows to 1st floor; stepped string course to 2nd; corbel course to 4th. Crowstepped gable corbelled out from 3rd floor with apex stack to centre; flanking triangular-pedimented wallhead dormers; conical, hexagonally-roofed engaged turret with oriels rising from 1st floor at outer right. Ashlar to ground and 1st floors; stugged squared and snecked sandstone with polished margins above; rubble to rear.

Original timber casements to 1st floor, predominantly original timber sash and case with 2-pane over plate glass glazing above. Grey slate pitched roof (flat section with railing to rear with access from dormer behind wallhead stack) coped stacks at W; coped wallhead stack at S; truncated gablehead stack at N (lost cans); clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

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