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Latitude: 55.9348 / 55°56'5"N
Longitude: -3.1762 / 3°10'34"W
OS Eastings: 326617
OS Northings: 671932
OS Grid: NT266719
Mapcode National: GBR 8SN.40
Mapcode Global: WH6ST.53S3
Plus Code: 9C7RWRMF+WG
Entry Name: 7 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: 369042
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29332
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 7 Middleby Street With Boundary Walls And Pedestrian Gate
ID on this website: 200369042
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Building
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.
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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