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Latitude: 55.9478 / 55°56'51"N
Longitude: -3.1923 / 3°11'32"W
OS Eastings: 325639
OS Northings: 673390
OS Grid: NT256733
Mapcode National: GBR 8NH.WC
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.YR1Q
Plus Code: 9C7RWRX5+43
Entry Name: 3 Merchant Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 3 Merchant Street
Listing Date: 15 July 1983
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 369037
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29329
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 3 Merchant Street
ID on this website: 200369037
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Tenement
Robert Burn, 1810. 4-storey attic and basement tenement. Droved ashlar with polished dressings. Regularly fenestrated. Raised margins to windows. Window to left of door in keystoned round-arched recess. Stone steps and platts with cast-iron railings over-arching basement area. Deep-set timber panelled door with 3-pane glazed fanlight in Doric pilastered doorpiece with fluted frieze. Later piend-roofed dormers.
12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Corniced end stack with circular cans.
Merchant Street was laid out by James Craig in 1774. George IV Bridge (Thomas Hamilton, 1829-43) cut right through Merchant Street, and Dean of Guild drawings show that Nos 17-19 George IV Bridge were built on top of No 5 Merchant Street, which was also designed by Burn, and mirrored No 3.
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