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Latitude: 55.9536 / 55°57'12"N
Longitude: -3.2021 / 3°12'7"W
OS Eastings: 325038
OS Northings: 674050
OS Grid: NT250740
Mapcode National: GBR 8LF.W8
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.SMD7
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ3X+C5
Entry Name: 1 and 3 Hill Street
Listing Date: 3 March 1966
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 368294
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29080
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200368294
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
James Hill, 1788-94. Mirrored pair of 3-storey and attic, 3-bay former classical houses on corner site. Droved cream ashlar sandstone with polished dressings (stonecleaned). Smaller windows with cill course at ground; eaves course. Broad tripartite architraved doorpieces with fluted frieze and mutuled cornice to inner bays; No 1 with flush-panelled door, No 3 with 2-leaf panelled doors. Single piend-roofed dormer to No 3.
Largely blank coursed rubble gable. Irregular coursed rubble 2-bay rear elevations with tripartite windows at 1st floor and stair bays at centre (projecting to No 3).
Timber sash and case 12-pane windows. Ashlar coped skews; rendered stacks; grey slates.
INTERIOR: not seen 1995.
James Hill was a mason who built the street with finance from Robert Belshes of Greenyeards. A match for, and partly the same build as,
Nos 5-15. Listed at Category A as a significant surviving part of the original fabric of Edinburgh?s New Town, one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain.
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