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Latitude: 55.9603 / 55°57'36"N
Longitude: -3.1949 / 3°11'41"W
OS Eastings: 325496
OS Northings: 674784
OS Grid: NT254747
Mapcode National: GBR 8NB.BW
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.WGS4
Plus Code: 9C7RXR64+42
Entry Name: 29, 31 Scotland Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 29-31A (Odd Nos) Scotland Street, Including Railings
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 370196
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29777
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200370196
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Robert Reid and William Sibbald, 1801-4. 4-storey and basement, 5-bay terraced tenement, with 4th storey as wallhead attic. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Band courses between basement and principal floor, principal floor and 1st floor; projecting cills at 1st and 2nd floor windows; cornice at 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 4-panel timber door, with plate glass rectangular fanlight, centred at principal floor, 4-panel timber door with rectilinear rectangular fanlight in bay to outer left; windows in remaining bays at principal floor, regular fenestration to floors above, and at basement. Segmental-arched openings at basement.
N ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (33-37 Scotland Street).
S ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (25-27A Scotland Street).
12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble gablehead stack, with broached ashlar quoins; coped, with circular cans.
INTERIORS: not seen, 1997, but some evidence of working panelled shutters.
RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with spear-headed balusters and urn finials.
Part of the Second New Town A Group, a significant surviving part of one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain.
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