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Latitude: 55.9493 / 55°56'57"N
Longitude: -3.1958 / 3°11'44"W
OS Eastings: 325421
OS Northings: 673558
OS Grid: NT254735
Mapcode National: GBR 8NG.5V
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.WQCL
Plus Code: 9C7RWRX3+PM
Entry Name: 3 Ramsay Lane, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 3 Ramsay Lane, Former Tolbooth Parish School
Listing Date: 15 October 2001
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 369673
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29597
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200369673
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: University building
Patrick Wilson, 1837. 3-storey 2-bay former school with Jacobean detailing; single storey extension to rear. Coursed ashlar (coursed rubble to sides and rear). String course between ground and 1st floors. Chamfered surrounds to windows.
W (RAMSAY LANE) ELEVATION: shaped gable with apex chimney and oculus. Corniced chimney stalks to corners. Slightly advanced 3-storey bay to centre with 5-light window to ground and 1st floors (modern glazing); raised panel above with inscription (TOLBOOTH PARISH SCHOOLS MDCCCXXXVII).
E (REAR) ELEVATION: 2-bay gabled rear of main block and pitch-roofed single storey extension with finialled ogee-roofed ventilatoron diaper patterned base.
Built as Toolbooth Parish School in 1837. Incorporated into Dr Guthrie's Original Ragged or Industrial School (1 Ramsay Lane, separately listed) after 1850, as the Girls' and Infants' section. Sydney Mitchell's Dean of Guild plans of 1899 show the building incorporated into the New College complex as classrooms, at the time of the building of the Rainy Hall.
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