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Latitude: 55.9544 / 55°57'15"N
Longitude: -3.2004 / 3°12'1"W
OS Eastings: 325145
OS Northings: 674131
OS Grid: NT251741
Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.70
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.TL6P
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ3X+PV
Entry Name: 34 Queen Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 34 Queen Street with Railings
Listing Date: 3 March 1966
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 369581
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29551
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200369581
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Terrace house
Circa 1790. 3-storey basement and attic, 3-bay former classical house. Droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings (see below.). Paired Roman Doric pilastered doorpiece with fluted frieze to left bay. 1st floor windows with floating cornices. Pair of squat early 20th century tripartite dormers.
3-bay rubble rear elevation with projecting centre bay.
Timber sash and case 12-pane windows. Ashlar coped skews; rendered stack to W, rebuilt to E; grey slates.
INTERIOR: not seen 1995; unified with Nos 35-37.
RAILINGS: cast-iron spearhead railings.
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. The masonry has been severely damaged by cleaning and patching, and the architraves at ground and 1st floor removed.
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