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Latitude: 55.9581 / 55°57'29"N
Longitude: -3.2001 / 3°12'0"W
OS Eastings: 325169
OS Northings: 674546
OS Grid: NT251745
Mapcode National: GBR 8MC.8P
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.THBT
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ5X+6X
Entry Name: 56, 58, 60, 62, 64, 66, 66A Dundas Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 56-66A (Even Nos) Dundas Street, Including Railings
Listing Date: 10 November 1966
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 367178
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28719
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 56, 58, 60, 62, 64, 66, 66a Dundas Street
ID on this website: 200367178
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
4-storey and basement, 9-bay terraced tenement. Band courses between basement and principal floor, and principal and 1st floor; projecting cills to 1st and 2nd floor windows; continuous cornice at 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.
E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: flush-panelled timber common stair door centred at principal floor, with radial rectangular fanlight, flanked by windows; flush-panelled timber doors in bays 3rd from left and right; windows in remaining bays at principal floor. Regular fenestration to floors above. Windows guards in bays at 3rd floor, except in centre bay.
N ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (68-76 Dundas Street).
S ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (44-86 Great King Street).
12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Coursed rubble ridge stacks with broached ashlar quoins; coped, with circular cans.
INTERIORS: not seen, 1997, but some evidence of working panelled shutters.
RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by iron railings with spear-headed balusters and pineapple finials.
Part of the Second New Town A Group, a significant surviving part of one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain. 56-66A Dundas Street was formerly 4-10A Pitt Street.
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