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6, 8, 10 India Street, Edinburgh

A Category A Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9551 / 55°57'18"N

Longitude: -3.2058 / 3°12'20"W

OS Eastings: 324810

OS Northings: 674219

OS Grid: NT248742

Mapcode National: GBR 8LD.4R

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.QLN3

Plus Code: 9C7RXQ4V+2M

Entry Name: 6, 8, 10 India Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 4-10 (Even Nos) India Street, Including Railings and Lamps

Listing Date: 3 October 1967

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 368414

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29131

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 6, 8, 10 India Street

ID on this website: 200368414

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

William and Lewis A Wallace, 1819-23. 4-storey and basement, 7-bay symmetrical tenement in terraced site. Broached sandstone ashlar; polished V-jointed rustication at principal floor; rock-faced rustication at basement. Cill course to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors; band course to principal and 1st floors; cornice and blocking course to 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: flush-panelled common stair door centred at principal floor, with rectangular fanlight, flanked by flush-panelled doors in recessed round-arched doorways, with umbrella semicircular fanlights. Windows in bays to outer left and right; regular fenestration to floors above, with blind window centred at 3rd floor. Flagged basement area with coped rubble retaining walls. Vertically boarded timber doors to cellars.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Broached ashlar ridge stacks, pair of rubble gablehead stacks with broached ashlar dressings; coped with circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen 1997.

RAILINGS AND LAMPS: ashlar copes, surmounted by cast-iron railings with spear-headed balusters and urn finials. Cast-iron railing mounted lamps with glass globes.

Statement of Interest

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.

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