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36 And 37 Drummond Street, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9477 / 55°56'51"N

Longitude: -3.1837 / 3°11'1"W

OS Eastings: 326173

OS Northings: 673377

OS Grid: NT261733

Mapcode National: GBR 8QH.LD

Mapcode Global: WH6SM.2R7R

Plus Code: 9C7RWRX8+3G

Entry Name: 36 And 37 Drummond Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 2 Roxburgh Street and 36, 37 Drummond Street Including Railings

Listing Date: 29 April 1977

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 369867

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29675

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200369867

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1800. 4-storey and basement, 5 x 3 bay Classical tenement on corner site with entrance platts oversailing basement. Droved ashlar to upper storeys, polished ashlar band courses, chamfered rustication to ground. Cill course, cornice. Raised cills to 2nd storey. 4-panel timber entrance doors with fanlights above.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows, some blank windows. Grey slates, wallhead stacks.

COPING AND RAILINGS: to N and E (street) elevations. Low ashlar coping with spear-headed cast-iron railings; also to entrance platts.

Statement of Interest

This is a good example of an externally little-altered, well-proportioned early 19th century tenement, built in the Classical style and which forms a significant addition to the streetscape. The building is well-detailed with simple Classical features, including chamfered rustication to the ground floor and ashlar banding. The Classical style dominated the expansion of Edinburgh in the 18th and 19th centuries, and this is a good example of the type.

The tenement is continuous with nos 32-35 Drummond Street (see separate listing) and originally formed the NE corner of a tenement block with central shared gardens. The feus for this land were sold by Frances Braidwood after 1800 at a time when Edinburgh was expanding to the South.

List description revised as part of Edinburgh Holyrood Ward resurvey 2007-08.

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