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7, 8 And 9 North Bank Street, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9498 / 55°56'59"N

Longitude: -3.1936 / 3°11'37"W

OS Eastings: 325557

OS Northings: 673620

OS Grid: NT255736

Mapcode National: GBR 8NG.LN

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.XQD4

Plus Code: 9C7RWRX4+WG

Entry Name: 7, 8 And 9 North Bank Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 7-9 (Inclusive Nos) North Bank Street

Listing Date: 12 December 1974

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 370823

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30064

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200370823

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

John Gershom Adams, 1895-6, incorporating earlier fabric. 4-storey and attic 6-bay tenement with Jacobean details. Shops with balustraded parapet built out at ground floor, 2-storey oriels at 2nd and 3rd floors (date 1896 to parapet of that to left), mansard roof and gabled dormers to attic, and finialed bartizan to corner. Ashlar; rubble with ashlar dressings to side and rear. 3 bays to W late 18th century, with additions by Adams; 3 bays to E and balustraded shops built by Adams.

N ( NORTH BANK STREET) ELEVATION: plate glass windows to shops with Ionic timber colonnettes with thistle detail; door to flats to centre with plate glass fanlight. 3 bays to left: channelled pilaster strips; stone mullioned windows at 1st floor; finialled shaped gable with mullioned tripartite dormer window; heraldic shield in gable. 3 bays to right: shoulder-arched surrounds to windows at 1st floor; crenellated parapet to oriel; finialled pediment to tripartitie mullioned dormer.

WARDROP'S COURT (REAR) ELEVATION: regularly fenestrated gabled left block. Mansard-roofed right block: irregularly fenestrated; paired windows to ground, 1st and 2nd floors to left; 2-window gabled dormerhead breaking eaves above. Windows in re-entrant angle.

Predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Corniced apex stack with circular cans to 18th century block to rear. Stone skews.

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