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10-12 Broughton Street, Edinburgh

A Category A Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.957 / 55°57'25"N

Longitude: -3.1884 / 3°11'18"W

OS Eastings: 325895

OS Northings: 674413

OS Grid: NT258744

Mapcode National: GBR 8PD.N2

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.ZJVN

Plus Code: 9C7RXR46+RJ

Entry Name: 10-12 Broughton Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 10-12 (Even Nos) Broughton Street, Including Railings

Listing Date: 16 June 1966

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 366173

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28366

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 10-12 Broughton Street

ID on this website: 200366173

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Terrace house

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Description

1810. 3-storey and basement, 6-bay terrace, formerly pair of 3-bay classical houses. Polished ashlar sandstone; broached ashlar at basement. Base course; band courses between basement and principal floor, principal and 1st floors; cill course at 1st floor; cornice and blocking course at 2nd floor. Bracketed projecting cills at 1st floor; projecting cills at 2nd floor. Polished ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: advanced paired doorpieces to centre bays, comprising engaged fluted Doric columns flanking 6-panel timber doors with rectilinear-pattern rectangular fanlights, linked by continuous entablature with wreath-ornamented frieze and cornice. Windows in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above and basement. Public house at basement (The Basement). Flagged basement area.

SE ELEVATION: 3-bay; coupled giant order Ionic pilasters flanking centre bay at 1st and 2nd floors. Blind windows except to right at 1st and 2nd floors. Paired stacks surmounting centre bay and linked by coped parapet.

NW ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (14-22A Broughton Street).

SW (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen, 1998.

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered wallhead stacks; corniced, with circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1998; evidence of working panelled shutters.

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with spear-headed and pineapple finials.

Statement of Interest

Part of the Edinburgh New Town A Group. A good example of pre-Reid and Sibbald New Town housing. The south east elevation with its giant pilasters almost becomes obscured by the later St Paul's and St George's Church.

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