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Latitude: 55.9558 / 55°57'20"N
Longitude: -3.2016 / 3°12'5"W
OS Eastings: 325070
OS Northings: 674295
OS Grid: NT250742
Mapcode National: GBR 8LD.ZH
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.SKMK
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ4X+89
Entry Name: 3, 5, 7 Howe Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 3-7 (Odd Nos) Howe Street, Including Railings
Listing Date: 10 November 1966
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 368384
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29107
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 3, 5, 7 Howe Street
ID on this website: 200368384
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Tenement
Robert Reid and William Sibbald, 1802. 4-storey and basement, 7-bay terraced tenement. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Band course at principal, 1st and 2nd floors; projecting cills at 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor windows; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Entrance platts and steps oversailing basements.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: round-arched doorpiece centred at principal floor, with panelled door, blind, radial, semicircular fanlight, flanked by round-arched doorpeices, with panelled doors and radial semicircular fanlights. Regular fenestration in remaining bays at principal floor and to floors above. Flagged basement area.
N ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (9 and 9A Howe Street).
S ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (1-19 Heriot Row).
Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Broached ashlar ridge stacks, random rubble gablehead stack with broached quoins; coped, with circular cans.
INTERIORS: not seen, 1997, but some evidence of working panelled shutters.
RAILINGS: iron railings.
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.
Howe Street was part of the first extension of the New Town planned by Reid and Sibbald in 1802. Building started in 1808.
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