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Latitude: 55.951 / 55°57'3"N
Longitude: -3.1037 / 3°6'13"W
OS Eastings: 331175
OS Northings: 673657
OS Grid: NT311736
Mapcode National: GBR 2C.Y4P9
Mapcode Global: WH6SN.9P98
Plus Code: 9C7RXV2W+9G
Entry Name: 8 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: 363765
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26880
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, Portobello, 8 James Street
ID on this website: 200363765
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Portobello/Craigmillar
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Terrace house
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.
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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