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16, 17, 18 West Preston Street, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9392 / 55°56'21"N

Longitude: -3.1802 / 3°10'48"W

OS Eastings: 326375

OS Northings: 672426

OS Grid: NT263724

Mapcode National: GBR 8RL.9F

Mapcode Global: WH6SM.3ZW9

Plus Code: 9C7RWRQ9+MW

Entry Name: 16, 17, 18 West Preston Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 2A-18 West Preston Street, Edinburgh

Listing Date: 14 December 1970

Last Amended: 17 July 2015

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 405491

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29500

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200405491

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Air-raid shelter

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Description

Thomas Brown, 1824. 4-storey classical tenement. 5 blocks, (4, 8 bay blocks and 1 9 bay block at nos 16-18) slightly stepped, belt courses 1st floor and 3rd floor, basements at 14-18.

Statement of Interest

Following the completion of the South Bridge in 1788, which linked the northern New Town and the Southside of Edinburgh, tenemental development in the Southside expanded considerably.

Architect Thomas Brown (circa 1781 -1850) was appointed as Superintendent of the City Works in Edinburgh in 1819. He designed a number of tenements in Edinburgh in the first half of the nineteenth century (circa 1817-1831).

The tenement blocks appear on the Ordnance Survey Town Plan of Edinburgh, surveyed in 1852.

Listed building record and statutory address updated (2015). Previously listed as '2A-18 West Preston Street'.

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