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General, Kew Terrace, Edinburgh

A Category C Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9453 / 55°56'43"N

Longitude: -3.2304 / 3°13'49"W

OS Eastings: 323251

OS Northings: 673155

OS Grid: NT232731

Mapcode National: GBR 8FJ.48

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.BTYN

Plus Code: 9C7RWQW9+4R

Entry Name: General, Kew Terrace, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 1-7 (Inclusive Nos) Kew Terrace, Including Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 29 April 1977

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 368540

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29200

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200368540

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1863. 2-storey, 3-bay terraced houses with crowstepped corbelled dormers. Stugged squared and snecked sandstone ashlar. Lintels to openings at ground. Coped skews with skewputts to ends of advanced Nos 1-2 and 6-7.

N (FRONT) ELEVATION: symmetrical; panelled timber door with fanlight to centre at ground; geometrical hoodmould incorporating rectangular plaque above; windows to flanking bays, surmounted by corbel course, raised at lintel, to advanced window bays to 1st floor.

4-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate double-pitch roof; mixture of corniced and coped squared and snecked sandstone ashlar stacks and coped, rendered stacks with cylindrical and octagonal cans, some pierced; cast-iron rainwater goods.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped stugged squared and snecked sandstone ashlar boundary walls to street, raised at ends. High coped boundary walls to courts at back.

Statement of Interest

A charming row of houses.

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