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Latitude: 55.965 / 55°57'54"N
Longitude: -3.1802 / 3°10'48"W
OS Eastings: 326426
OS Northings: 675299
OS Grid: NT264752
Mapcode National: GBR 8R9.B5
Mapcode Global: WH6SM.3BWG
Plus Code: 9C7RXR89+2W
Entry Name: 48 Pilrig Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 46 and 48 Pilrig Street and Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 25 November 1965
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 369506
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29496
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200369506
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Leith Walk
Traditional County: Midlothian
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1823. 2-storey with basement and attic, 6-bay pair of mirrored classical houses. Sandstone ashlar, rubble to side and rear elevations. Base course, cill course with corniced and architraved windows at ground floor, cill band at 1st floor, eaves cornice and blocking course with central raised tablets, ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement to each house.
E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: Ionic pilastered and corniced doorpieces with fanlights to centre bays, windows to remaining bays, regular fenestration above, piended and canted tripartite dormers to left and right, roof lights.
S (GABLE) ELEVATION: gable wall with windows at ground and 1st floors, 2 windows to attic.
N (GABLE) ELEVATION: raised flues visible, blocked openings.
W (REAR) ELEVATION: 3-storey with roof finishing at taller wallhead. 4-bay, bays to right advanced, regularly fenestrated, smaller windows at attic.
Timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing to No 46, 12-pane to No 48, grey slates, stone skews, gablehead stacks, stack to East pitch, later cast-iron railings.
INTERIOR: not seen 1998.
BOUNDARY WALLS: low rubble walls with ashlar saddleback copes.
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