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5 South Gray Street, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9343 / 55°56'3"N

Longitude: -3.1771 / 3°10'37"W

OS Eastings: 326561

OS Northings: 671878

OS Grid: NT265718

Mapcode National: GBR 8RN.Y6

Mapcode Global: WH6ST.53CH

Plus Code: 9C7RWRMF+P5

Entry Name: 5 South Gray Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 5 South Gray Street, Including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Pedestrian Gates

Listing Date: 14 December 1970

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 367831

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28945

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 5 South Gray Street

ID on this website: 200367831

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1815. 2 storey, 3 bay, symmetrical classical house. Droved cream sandstone with ashlar dressings; rubble to sides and rear. Advanced cills to ground floor windows; cill course to 1st floor windows; dentilled cornice; blocking course.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central doorway; 2 leaf panelled outer door; diamond patterned fanlight; engaged columns, carved paterae and dentilled cornice to doorpiece; single window to 1st floor above. Single windows to both floors in bays to outer left and right.

Plate glass, timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof; some coped wallhead stacks; some single corniced wallhead stacks with moulded octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND PEDESTRIAN GATES: low coped rubble wall to street; high rubble walls to N and S; corniced gatepiers with pyramidal caps. Pedestrian gates adjoining house to N and S.

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