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16 Queen Street, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9549 / 55°57'17"N

Longitude: -3.1975 / 3°11'50"W

OS Eastings: 325325

OS Northings: 674185

OS Grid: NT253741

Mapcode National: GBR 8MD.TV

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.VLK8

Plus Code: 9C7RXR33+W2

Entry Name: 16 Queen Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 16 Queen Street with Railings

Listing Date: 3 March 1966

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 369564

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29540

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200369564

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1785; remodelled by Robert Paterson & Son, 1884. 3-storey basement and attic, 3-bay terraced former classical house. Droved Craigleith sandstone ashlar, with later cream sandstone dressings, channelled at ground. Regular fenestration, moulded architraves. Steps to Ionic columned doorpiece to right, with heavy entablature and parapet; panelled door, no fanlight. Window at 1st floor above with elaborate bracketed cornice. Left bays with later broad flat-roofed canted window to basement, ground and 1st floors; panelled aprons and cornices (bracketed at 1st floor). Windows at 2nd floor lugged with heavy cills. Eaves course. Single piend-roofed dormer (and further garret skylight).

Rubble 3-bay rear elevation with later piend-roofed canted dormer

Timber sash and case windows; plate glass to front; 12-pane to rear. Grey slates; E stack demolished.

INTERIOR: central horseshoe stair on axis with hallway; pitched skylight. Apsidal-ended Dining Room with columnar screen (stylised acanthus capitals) and 19th cornice to section in front of screen; dado and swagged chimneypiece with cherub at centre; now divided longitudinally to create larger entrance hall. At 1st floor, Drawing Room subdivided; swagged chimneypiece with griffins at centre, marble slips. Plain stone chimneypieces to remaining rooms. 2nd floor with later straight timber stair to attic.

RAILINGS: plain wrought-iron.

Statement of Interest

Built as a pair with No 15 (see separate listing). A Group with 4-15 (inclusive nos) Queen Street and 99-123 (odd nos) Hanover Street as a significant surviving part of the original fabric of Edinburgh?s New Town, one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain; Queen Street was built to take advantage of the northern views, and has survived remarkably unaltered to this day.

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