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21 Upper Gilmore Place, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9406 / 55°56'25"N

Longitude: -3.2079 / 3°12'28"W

OS Eastings: 324647

OS Northings: 672603

OS Grid: NT246726

Mapcode National: GBR 8KK.PZ

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.PYM8

Plus Code: 9C7RWQRR+6R

Entry Name: 21 Upper Gilmore Place, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 21 and 23 Upper Gilmore Place Including Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 25 April 1989

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 367568

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28919

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 21 Upper Gilmore Place

ID on this website: 200367568

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

1810. 2-storey with attic, 3-bay, rectangular-plan pair of plain classical houses. Coursed sandstone rubble with painted, polished ashlar doorpieces; rubble to sides and rear. Base course; cill course to 1st floor. Droved quoins and lintels; droved long and short surrounds to windows.

NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: pilastered and corniced doorpieces to 2 central bays; deep-set panelled timber doors with plate glass fanlights; single windows above and to all floors of remaining bays; 3-light canted dormer to each house. Small lean-to with boarded door at rear of left side wall.

12-pane timber sash and case windows; replacement glazing to dormers except central light of dormer to left. Grey slate roof with piended dormers; mutual skews; corniced gablehead stack to NE with moulded cans; mutual corniced stack to SW, extended and rendered. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

BOUNDARY WALLS: coped rubble mutual boundary walls to left and right; low coped boundary walls to street with iron railings and opening for bootscraper.

Statement of Interest

A good remaining pair of early 19th century houses, which retain their glazing and boundary walls.

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