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Latitude: 55.9576 / 55°57'27"N
Longitude: -3.188 / 3°11'16"W
OS Eastings: 325924
OS Northings: 674475
OS Grid: NT259744
Mapcode National: GBR 8PC.QW
Mapcode Global: WH6SM.0J66
Plus Code: 9C7RXR56+2R
Entry Name: 5 and 5A Forth Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 5 and 5A Forth Street
Listing Date: 16 June 1966
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 393006
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45945
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200393006
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Robert Burn, designed 1800 with later alterations. 2-storey with raised attic, 3-bay, terraced classical house with shopfront at ground. Sandstone ashlar. Cornice and blocking course with scrolled mullions above projecting addition at ground, of 4-bay shoulder-arched arcade with moulded arrises, moulded architraves to 1st floor windows, eaves cornice and blocking course.
N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 4-bay arcade at ground, 2-leaf timber door with shouldered fanlight to left, former window panelled timber door with shouldered fanlight to right, plate glass shop windows with aprons to centre. Regular fenestration above with 2 piended and canted windows in slate-hung full-width dormer.
Timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing, grey slates.
INTERIOR: not seen 1998.
Originally listed with Nos 1-29 (odd nos) Forth Street, 41A-45 Broughton Street and 12 Union Street. Door to right altered to lead into neighbouring 3 Forth Street, and door to shop made in wider bay to outer left. 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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