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Latitude: 55.9575 / 55°57'27"N
Longitude: -3.1881 / 3°11'17"W
OS Eastings: 325917
OS Northings: 674473
OS Grid: NT259744
Mapcode National: GBR 8PC.QW
Mapcode Global: WH6SM.0J47
Plus Code: 9C7RXR56+2Q
Entry Name: 3 Forth Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 3 Forth Street
Listing Date: 16 June 1966
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 393005
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45944
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200393005
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Robert Burn, designed 1800 with later 19th century alterations. 3 bay, 3-storey with attic and basement, terraced classical tenement with 19th century shopfront at ground (see Notes). Sandstone ashlar. Dentil cornice to ground floor, projecting cills to 1st and 2nd floors, band course between 1st and 2nd floors, eaves cornice, entrance platts oversailing basement.
N (PRINCIPAL ELEVATION): 4 bays at ground, tripartite entrance to right with fanlight, tall windows of later 19th century shopfronts to remaining bays of shoulder arched arcade with colonnette mullions, aprons beneath, banded rustication to outer right. Regular fenestration above, 2 piended and canted tripartite dormers.
Timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing, grey slates, coped skews, gablehead stacks with terracotta cans, decorative cast-iron railings.
INTERIOR: not seen 1998.
Originally listed with 1-29 (odd nos) Forth Street, 41A-45 Broughton Street and 12 Union Street. Shop front now entrance to Victoria Hotel and further door to hotel in outer right bay of Nos 5 and 5A Forth Street. Forth Street (excluding 4-10), Picardy Place and at least 1-5 Broughton Street, 1-12 Union Street and Union Place were designed by Robert Burn in 1800 for the Commissioners for the Improvement of Manufacturers in Scotland. Building began on the north side circa 1803-1804 and on the south side about 1805. See OEC v 25 p.30.
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