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5 Middleby Street With Boundary Walls And Pedestrian Gate, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9349 / 55°56'5"N

Longitude: -3.1761 / 3°10'33"W

OS Eastings: 326625

OS Northings: 671937

OS Grid: NT266719

Mapcode National: GBR 8SN.40

Mapcode Global: WH6ST.53V2

Plus Code: 9C7RWRMF+XH

Entry Name: 5 Middleby Street With Boundary Walls And Pedestrian Gate, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 5 and 7 Middleby Street, Including Boundary Walls and Pedestrian Gates

Listing Date: 14 December 1970

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 369041

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29332

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200369041

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1817. 2 storey, 4 bay, pair of symmetrical classical houses. Cream sandstone polished ashlar, rusticated at ground; rubble to sides and rear. Base course; string course at ground; dividing band course; cill course to 1st floor windows; cornice; blocking course raised at centre.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to round arched doorways to 2 central bays; panelled doors; plate glass fanlights; engaged Tuscan columns to doorpieces; single windows to 1st floor above; single windows set in round arched panels to ground floor outer left and right; single windows to 1st floor above; cast iron window guards to enlarged windows to 1st floor terminal bays.

4 pane, timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof; coped ridge stack; moulded cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND PEDESTRIAN GATES: low droved and coped boundary wall to street; replacement railings; pedestrian gates adjoining houses to E and W.

Statement of Interest

Middleby Street was part of the Blacket development feued by Benjamin and George Bell: it takes its name from their Dumfriesshire estate of Blacket which was in the parish of Middlebie.

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