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Latitude: 55.9371 / 55°56'13"N
Longitude: -3.178 / 3°10'40"W
OS Eastings: 326507
OS Northings: 672182
OS Grid: NT265721
Mapcode National: GBR 8RM.R6
Mapcode Global: WH6ST.41XD
Plus Code: 9C7RWRPC+RQ
Entry Name: 51 Minto Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 51 Minto Street, Birch House, Including Boundary Wall and Pedestrian Gate
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 369098
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29365
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200369098
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: House
1825. 2-storeys and basement; 3-bay classical house. Cream sandstone ashlar with channelled ground floor to principal elevation; coursed rubble sandstone to sides and rear. Base course dividing band course; cill course and architraves to 1st floor windows; cornice and blocking course with raised centre.
E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: cavetto-splayed central doorway with panelled door and plate glass fanlight; doric columns to corniced doorpiece; single window at 1st floor above and in bays to outer left and right.
W ELEVATION: raised basement with stone porch to centre, stair window above, regular fenestration flanking. NW quoin chamfered at ground and swept to square above.
Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof with tall, shouldered, rendered and coped wallhead stacks; moulded cans.
INTERIOR: glazed vestibule, winding stair, panelled doors, decorative plaster cornices. Fine white marble chimneypiece in 1st floor bedroom to front.
BOUNDARY WALL AND PEDESTRIAN GATE: low coped boundary wall to street; pedestrian gate adjoining house to S. Stone wall to garden at rear.
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