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Latitude: 55.9555 / 55°57'19"N
Longitude: -3.2061 / 3°12'21"W
OS Eastings: 324792
OS Northings: 674268
OS Grid: NT247742
Mapcode National: GBR 8LD.2L
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.QKHS
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ4V+6H
Entry Name: 20, 22 India Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 20-24 (Even Nos) India Street, Including Railings and Lamps
Listing Date: 3 October 1967
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 368419
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29136
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 20, 22 India Street
ID on this website: 200368419
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
William and Lewis A Wallace, 1819-23. 4-storey and basement, 9-bay classical tenement in terraced site. Tooled sandstone ashlar; channelled polished ashlar at principal floor. Cill course at 1st and 2nd floors; band course at principal and 1st floor; cornice at 2nd floor; blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.
E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: recessed doorpieces, comprising common stair door at centre and doors in 3rd bays from outer left and right; flush-panelled doors with rectangular fanlights. Windows in recesses in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above, architraved windows with cornices at 1st floor. Flagged basement area, with coped rubble retaining walls; predominantly vertically boarded timber doors to cellars.
Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Harled ridge stacks with broached ashlar dressings, large rubble gablehead stacks with broached ashlar dressings; coped, with circular cans. Coped skews.
INTERIORS: not seen 1997, but some evidence of working panelled shutters.
RAILINGS AND LAMPS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with fleur-de-lis balusters and pineapple finials. Cast-iron railing-mounted lamps with glass globes.
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.
The architect William Wallace lived at 22 India Street.
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