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7 James Street, Portobello, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9509 / 55°57'3"N

Longitude: -3.1037 / 3°6'13"W

OS Eastings: 331173

OS Northings: 673651

OS Grid: NT311736

Mapcode National: GBR 2C.Y4N7

Mapcode Global: WH6SN.9P89

Plus Code: 9C7RXV2W+9G

Entry Name: 7 James Street, Portobello, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 7 and 8 James Street with Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 12 December 1974

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 363764

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26880

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, Portobello, 7 James Street

ID on this website: 200363764

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Portobello/Craigmillar

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Terrace house

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Description

Circa 1855 with later alterations. Terraced mirrored pair of 2-storey classical houses of 3 bays each, terminating wider terrace. Ashlar at ground and droved at 1st floor; snecked rubble to side and rear elevations. Base course (no longer visible at no 7), apron to ground floor windows, band course, panelled apron and cill course to 1st floor, cornice (overstepped by terrace to left) and blocking course. Architraved windows, architrave extending to base course, at ground floor.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 6-bay (grouped 2-2-2). Corniced, pilastraded doorpiece with 4-panelled doors at centre, plate glass fanlights and windows at 1st floor above each. Windows to each floor in each bays.

NE ELEVATION: M-gabled with blinded window to extreme left at 1st floor.

NW ELEVATION: later 2-storey piend-roofed extension to centre, with further single storey monopitch addition; a further singe storey addition to outer left of No 8.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows to front, 12-pane timber sash and case windows to rear. Slate double-pitched roof with ashlar skews dividing properties; gablehead stacks and to roof apex of rear extension.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1994.

BOUNDARY WALLS: droved ashlar with coping. Rubble coped to rear.

Statement of Interest

The houses do not appear on the 1st edition OS map, but are shown on Sutter's map of 1856. The rear additions were built by 1896.

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