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Latitude: 55.957 / 55°57'25"N
Longitude: -3.1972 / 3°11'49"W
OS Eastings: 325349
OS Northings: 674424
OS Grid: NT253744
Mapcode National: GBR 8MD.W2
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.VJQM
Plus Code: 9C7RXR43+R4
Entry Name: 10 Northumberland Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 6-12 (Even Nos) Northumberland Street, Including Railings and Lamp
Listing Date: 30 September 1964
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 369374
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29454
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200369374
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Robert Reid and William Sibbald, early 19th century. 3-storey and basement 12-bay terraced tenement, comprising 4 3-bay houses. Polished ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Base course; band courses between basement and principal floor, principal floor and 1st floor; cill course at 1st floor at No 12, cills lowered to remaining 1st floor windows; projecting cills in bays at 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course at 2nd floor. Architraved windows with cornices at 1st floor, small windows to 2nd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.
N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: recessed doorpieces in 3rd, 4th 7th and 10th bays from left, comprising 6-panel timber doors with radial rectangular fanlights; regular fenestration to remaining bays at principal floor and to floors above and basement. Fluted aprons to 1st floor bays at No 12.
E ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (16 and 18 Nelson Street).
W ELEVATION: coursed rubble gable, predominantly blank with window centred at 2nd floor.
Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows, with window guards in bays at 1st floor of Nos 6 and 8; spanning bays at 1st floor of No 10. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble and rendered ridge stacks, rubble gablehead stack; coped, with circular cans.
INTERIORS: not seen, 1997, but some evidence of working panelled shutters.
RAILINGS AND LAMP: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with spear-headed balusters and pineapple finials. Cast-iron railing-mounted lamps with glass globes.
Part of the Second New Town A Group, a significant surviving part of one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain.
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