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Gates And Railings, Forecourt To 3 And 4 Thistle Court With Boundary Walls, Thistle Street, Edinburgh

A Category A Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9545 / 55°57'16"N

Longitude: -3.1958 / 3°11'44"W

OS Eastings: 325431

OS Northings: 674138

OS Grid: NT254741

Mapcode National: GBR 8ND.5Z

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.WLCL

Plus Code: 9C7RXR33+QM

Entry Name: Gates And Railings, Forecourt To 3 And 4 Thistle Court With Boundary Walls, Thistle Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: Thistle Street, 3 and 4 Thistle Court with Lamp Brackets, Boundary Walls, Gates and Railings

Listing Date: 13 January 1966

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 389814

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43351

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, Thistle Street, Forecourt To 3 And 4 Thistle Court With Boundary Walls, Gates And Railings
Gates and Railings, Forecourt to 3 and 4 Thistle Court with Boundary Walls, Thistle Street, Edinburgh

ID on this website: 200389814

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

1767-8; subsequent alterations. 2-storey and attic pair of 2-bay semi-detached classical houses, now electrical sub-station. Sandstone rubble (some red) with ashlar dressings. At centre, pair of corniced architraved doorpieces with central wrought-iron lamp bracket. Flanked by 2 bays to each side; to S, projecting corniced tripartite window at ground; larger windows at 1st floor. Eaves cornice; open-pedimented ashlar wallhead dormer to S with canted slate-hung slides; piend-roofed tripartite dormer to N.

Irregular gable end with garage door created at ground. Rear elevation with further openings created at ground.

Timber sash and case windows. Ashlar coped skews; grey slates; stone stacks.

INTERIOR: not seen 1995; now electricity sub-station.

FORECOURT WITH BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS, GATES AND RAILINGS: ashlar coped rubble walls enclose forecourt; iron gates with thistle fretwork. Ashlar footings and modern railings mark site of former well (?). Pair of corniced gatepiers with flattened pyramidal copes.

Statement of Interest

One of a pair facing each other across courtyard perpendicular to Thistle Street. Probably the earliest surviving buildings in Edinburgh?s New Town, one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain. This pair was clearly built soon after Nos 1 and 2 (see separate listing).

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