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Latitude: 55.954 / 55°57'14"N
Longitude: -3.2099 / 3°12'35"W
OS Eastings: 324551
OS Northings: 674099
OS Grid: NT245740
Mapcode National: GBR 8KF.94
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.NLPZ
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ3R+H3
Entry Name: 3 Great Stuart Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 1-5 (Odd Nos) Great Stuart Street, Including Railings and Lamps
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 367934
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28966
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 3 Great Stuart Street
ID on this website: 200367934
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
James Gillespie Graham, designed 1822, with later additions. 4-storey and basement, 13-bay classical terrace, comprising 5-bay linking terrace, flanked by pair of advanced 4-bay terminal pavilions. Polished ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Base course; band course between basement and principal floor; corniced frieze at impost level at principal floor of terminal pavilions; cill course at 1st and 2nd floors; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.
SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION, LINKING TERRACE: 5-bay linking terrace (No 3), comprising panelled timber door with plate glass rectangular fanlight centred at principal floor. Windows in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above. Architraved windows with cornices at 1st floor; architraved windows at 2nd and 3rd floors. Flagged basement area.
SE ELEVATION, TERMINAL PAVILIONS: pair of 4-bay terminal pavilions. Doric pilasters flanking bays at 1st and 2nd floors; panelled pilasters flanking bays at 3rd floor. 4-panel timber common stair door, with radial semicircular fanlight, in bay to outer left at No 1; 4-panel timber door with blind radial semicircular fanlight in penultimate bay from left at No 5. Windows in round-arched recesses in remaining bays at principal floor, regular fenestration to floors above, with blind windows in bay to outer right at principal floor and floors above, and at principal floor, 1st and 3rd floors in penultimate bay from left, at No 1. Flagged basement area.
AINSLIE PLACE RETURN TO W TERMINAL PAVILION: 4-bay, becoming 1 Ainslie Place (see separate listing).
MORAY PLACE RETURN TO E TERMINAL PAVILION: 4-bay, becoming 36 Moray Place (see separate listing).
REAR ELEVATION: not seen, 1998.
Variety of timber sash and case windows. Anthemion and palmette window guards in bays at 1st floor, except in bays 3rd and 4th from left and bay at outer left at No 1. Grey slate M-roofs. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Variety of broached and rendered ridge stacks; corniced, with circular cans.
INTERIORS: not seen, 1998; evidence of working panelled shutters.
RAILINGS AND LAMPS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with fleur-de-lis finials. Cast-iron railing-mounted lamps with glass globes.
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. The Moray Estate was designed for the 10th Earl of Moray (1771-1848). He inherited the 13 acre site from his father, after it was acquired from the Heriot Trust in 1782, and decided to feu the property for development in 1822. The complicated plan, with the crescent, oval and polygon of Randolph Crescent, Ainslie Place and Moray Place respectively, all linked by Great Stuart Street, conjoins the New Town with the Second New Town. Building was completed in 1830-31.
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