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36 India Street, Edinburgh

A Category A Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9561 / 55°57'21"N

Longitude: -3.2064 / 3°12'22"W

OS Eastings: 324773

OS Northings: 674333

OS Grid: NT247743

Mapcode National: GBR 8LD.0D

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.QKBB

Plus Code: 9C7RXQ4V+CC

Entry Name: 36 India Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 36-42 (Even Nos) India Street, Including Railings and Lamps

Listing Date: 3 October 1967

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 368424

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29140

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 36 India Street

ID on this website: 200368424

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Terrace house

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Description

William and Lewis A Wallace, 1819-23. 3-storey and basement, 10-bay tenement in terraced site. Polished sandstone ashlar; polished V-jointed rustication at principal floor; broached ashlar at basement. Band course at principal and 1st floors; cill course at 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course at 2nd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: round-arched doorpieces in bays 3rd from left and 3rd, 4th and 5th from right; recessed flush-panelled doors with umbrella, decorative and plate glass fanlights. Windows in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above. Cast-iron window guards in bays 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; plate glass to principal and 1st floors of Nos 36 and 42. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Harled ridge stacks; coped with circular cans.

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 quasi-Maltese cross finials. Cast-iron railing-mounted lamp with glass globe.

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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