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Latitude: 55.9567 / 55°57'24"N
Longitude: -3.2021 / 3°12'7"W
OS Eastings: 325040
OS Northings: 674398
OS Grid: NT250743
Mapcode National: GBR 8LD.W5
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.SJCV
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ4X+M5
Entry Name: 25, 27, 29 Howe Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 25-29 (Odd Nos) Howe Street, Including Railings
Listing Date: 10 November 1966
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 368392
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29113
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 25, 27, 29 Howe Street
ID on this website: 200368392
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Robert Reid and William Sibbald, 1802. 4-storey and basement, 9-bay terraced tenement. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Band course at principal floor; band course and cill course at 1st floor; cill course and cornice at 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: part-glazed common-stair door with blind rectangular fanlight, in 4th bay from left at principal floor; round-arched doorpieces in bays 3rd from left and 3rd from right, comprising 4-panel timber door to left, 6-panel timber door to right, with radial, semicircular fanlights. Windows in remaining bays at principal floor, regular fenestration to floors above. Flagged basement area.
N ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (31-37, odd Nos, Howe Street).
S ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (21-23B, odd Nos, Howe Street).
Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Broached ashlar ridge and gablehead stacks; coped with circular cans.
INTERIORS: not seen, 1997.
RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by iron railings with spear-headed balusters and urn finials.
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 began in 1808.
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