Description

Dated 1810. Single storey and basement building enclosing well. Droved ashlar sandstone, rusticated at basement. Base course between basement and principal floor; eaves course. Principal (SE) elevation comprising gabled front with metal door centred at principal floor, recessed tooled gable roundel reading '1810'; decorative finial and acroteria; blank side elevations; blank bowed rear elevation.

Grey slate roof. Coped skews, with consoled skew putts. Shouldered wallhead stack; coped, with circular can.

Statement of Interest

Part of the Edinburgh New Town A Group, a significant surviving part of one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain. St George's Well is situated on the banks of the Water of Leith and near to Alexander Nasmyth's St Bernard's Well (see separate listing). Named to commemorate the jubilee of George III, the well was finally blocked up in 1969.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17791248

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)