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21 Edina Place, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9597 / 55°57'34"N

Longitude: -3.1702 / 3°10'12"W

OS Eastings: 327041

OS Northings: 674693

OS Grid: NT270746

Mapcode National: GBR 8TC.B3

Mapcode Global: WH6SM.8GNL

Plus Code: 9C7RXR5H+VW

Entry Name: 21 Edina Place, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 21-27 Edina Place (Odd Numbers) and 26 Norton Park (Former Edina Works)

Listing Date: 15 November 1991

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371079

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30271

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 21 Edina Place

ID on this website: 200371079

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Leith Walk

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Factory Warehouse

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Description

1878. 2-storey, 20- by 4-bay, with 3- by 2-bay office wing at E end. L-plan Italianate printing works (now in residential use). Polychrome brickwork. Cill and lintel bands cream terracotta; bands of black brick; basecourse. Consoled cornice with square cast-iron gutter above. Paired windows in bays separated by brick pilasters. Transomed windows to ground floor.

Flat roof. Non-traditional glazing.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION, MAIN BLOCK: doors in left-hand opening of every 3rd bay. Square light above each door.

W ELEVATION, OFFICE WING: regularly spaced pilasters as above. Slightly irregular fenestration with some later alterations to outer right and central bays. Central pediment feature above cornice; bracket supports; finial; monogram and inscriptions:

"THE BUSINESS FOUNDED 1825 THIS BUILDING ERECTED 1878"

Statement of Interest

Built for W & K Johnston, the map makers, as a printing works. They later branched out into other types of printing, including bank notes. Now divided into flats for residential use. Later ancillary buildings have all been removed. So has the original chimney to the office block. A fine specimen of polychromy, one of Edinburgh's best. The printing industry was a particularly important one in the capital.

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