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Latitude: 55.9689 / 55°58'8"N
Longitude: -3.1666 / 3°9'59"W
OS Eastings: 327280
OS Northings: 675719
OS Grid: NT272757
Mapcode National: GBR 8V7.2S
Mapcode Global: WH6SM.B7BG
Plus Code: 9C7RXR9M+H9
Entry Name: 8 Vanburgh Place, Leith, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 1-8 (Inclusive Nos) Vanburgh Place with Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 364089
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27105
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, Leith, 8 Vanburgh Place
ID on this website: 200364089
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Leith
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Terrace house
William Lamb, 1826. Terrace of 8 houses, grouped as four 4-bay mirrored pairs; 2-storey over raised basement. Droved ashlar sandstone to front with polished ashlar dressings. Broad base course, cill course to 1st floor windows, eaves cornice and blocking course.
NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION:
symmetrical with regularly disposed bays. Each pair with entrance doors paired in centre bays; fielded panelled with carved ovoid wreath in lower panel; rectangular plate glass fanlights (multi-pane pattern at No 2). Ionic columned and pilastered double doorpieces with unifying entablatures (painted at No 6); fluting at heads of columns and pilasters. Basement windows.
SE ELEVATION: not seen (1995).
SW ELEVATION: bowed return elevation with single window to each floor.
Predominantly plate glass timber sash and case windows; 16-lying pane timber sash and case to No 8. Grey slate piended roof. Mutual multi-flue stacks: squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressing and cornice; truncated at Nos 4 and 5. Ashlar skew copes. Stone steps with modern railings oversailing basement recesses.
BOUNDARY WALL: ashlar dwarf wall with coping to street.
INTERIOR: not seen (1995).
Adjoins 1 Lochend Road (listed separately).
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