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Latitude: 55.9411 / 55°56'28"N
Longitude: -3.2072 / 3°12'25"W
OS Eastings: 324692
OS Northings: 672667
OS Grid: NT246726
Mapcode National: GBR 8KK.VR
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.PXYT
Plus Code: 9C7RWQRV+F4
Entry Name: 3 Gillespie Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 2-6 (Inclusive Numbers) Gillespie Street, Including Boundary Walls, Edinburgh
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Last Amended: 17 July 2015
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 405448
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28901
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200405448
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: Nos 2, 4 and 5 with doorpieces and timber doors to right at ground, Nos 3 and 6 with doorpieces and recessed timber doors to left at ground; single windows to flanking bays; regular fenestration to upper floor; small box dormers to Nos 2 and 3; piended canted dormer to No 4; piended dormer to No 5.
2-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof; stone skews. Coped, rendered stacks with corniced cans; small corniced stack with single octagonal can between Nos 5 and 6. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen 1997.
BOUNDARY WALLS: continuous coped, coursed sandstone boundary wall with breaks at pedestrian entrances.
Land at Lochrin to the southwest of the city was feued from the Trades Maiden Hospital in 1800 by Samuel Gilmour who laid out Gilmore Place (originally Gilmour Place). The estate was auctioned off by the Gilmour Trust estate in 1807, following which feus were developed independently (without an overall scheme). The terrace first appears on Kirkwood's Plan of the city of Edinburgh 1817.
No 6 has recently been stonecleaned.
Listed building record and statutory address updated (2015). Previously listed as '2-6 (inclusive nos) Gillespie Street, including boundary walls'.
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