Description

James Hill, 1788-94. Mirrored pair of 3-storey and attic, 3-bay classical former houses (now single office) on ground falling to N (front). Droved cream ashlar sandstone with polished dressings (stonecleaned). Smaller windows with cill course at ground; eaves course. Broad tripartite architraved doorpieces with fluted frieze and mutuled cornice to inner bays; deep-set flush-panelled doors. Centre 2nd floor window of No 20 blind. Each house with pair of modern piend-roofed bowed dormers.

Irregular rubble 2-storey and attic 2-bay rear elevations with tripartite windows to outer bays at ground, and considerable alterations, including infilling central stair windows; massive modern slate-hung box dormer to No 20.

Timber sash and case 12-pane windows. Ashlar coped skews; rebuilt stone stacks; grey slates.

INTERIOR: united as single office, stair of No 18 replaced by lift. Considerable alterations to all floors, but essential shape of rooms and cornicing survives. Each house formerly with 2 large rooms at 1st floor, 3-bay across front and 1 to rear with large pilastered tripartite window.

Statement of Interest

James Hill was a mason who built the street with finance from Robert Belshes of Greenyeards. A match for, and the same build as, No 22. Listed at Category A as a significant surviving part of the original fabric of Edinburgh?s New Town, one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17569696

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings