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Gardens With Railings And Gate, Drummond Place, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9586 / 55°57'30"N

Longitude: -3.1952 / 3°11'42"W

OS Eastings: 325478

OS Northings: 674595

OS Grid: NT254745

Mapcode National: GBR 8NC.8H

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.WHNF

Plus Code: 9C7RXR53+CW

Entry Name: Gardens With Railings And Gate, Drummond Place, Edinburgh

Listing Name: Drummond Place Gardens, Railings and Gate

Listing Date: 24 March 1998

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 392395

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45478

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, Drummond Place, Gardens With Railings And Gate

ID on this website: 200392395

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Architectural structure

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Description

Early 19th century, and later. Railings surrounding U-plan gardens; saddleback ashlar copes surmounted by fluted cast-iron railings flanked by short railings, with fleur-de-lis and quasi-Maltese Cross finials to W elevation, and NW and SW angles; modern rectilinear-patterned railings to remainder of gardens, railings set diagonally to street, in central panels. Round-arched cast-iron gate centred at W elevation, ornamented with honeysuckle motif and rampant lion medallion at apex, surmounted by lamp bracket. Whin chip paving with glazed brick kerbs, surrounding railings at street to N and S.

Statement of Interest

Part of the Second New Town A Group, representing a significant surviving part of one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain, and a central space of Drummond Place by Robert Reid and William Sibbald, 1804.

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