Description

James Hill, 1788-94. 3-storey and attic, 3-bay classical former house on ground falling to N (front). Droved cream ashlar sandstone with polished dressings. Smaller windows with cill course at ground; eaves course. Broad tripartite architraved doorpiece with fluted frieze and mutuled cornice to right bay (2-leaf panelled door). Small piend-roofed dormer to left.

Irregular rubble 2-storey and attic 2-bay rear elevation with projecting stair bay to left and tripartite windows.

Timber sash and case 12-pane windows (plate glass at ground). Ashlar coped skews; stone stacks, rebuilt to E, rendered to W; grey slates.

INTERIOR: not seen 1995.

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, Nos 18-20. 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 Q17569704

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Recommended Books

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)