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Latitude: 55.9569 / 55°57'24"N
Longitude: -3.2067 / 3°12'24"W
OS Eastings: 324755
OS Northings: 674417
OS Grid: NT247744
Mapcode National: GBR 8KD.Y3
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.QJ6R
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ4V+P8
Entry Name: 50 India Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 2 Gloucester Place and 46-52 (Even Nos) India Street, Including Railings and Lamps
Listing Date: 3 October 1967
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 368429
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29142
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 50 India Street
ID on this website: 200368429
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Thomas Bonnar, 1822-24. 4-storey and basement, 5-bay end pavilion of terraced block. Polished sandstone ashlar; channelled at principal floor; broached ashlar at basement. Band course at principal floor; cill course at 1st and 3rd floors; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: central 3 bays advanced, comprising recessed doorpiece in penultimate bay to right; flush-panelled door, rectangular fanlight. Windows in recesses in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above. Architraved windows with cornices at 1st floor. Cast-iron balconies in bays at 1st floor. Flagged basement area with predominantly vertically boarded timber doors to cellars.
E ELEVATION (INDIA STREET RETURN): 46-52 (even nos) India Street, comprising 5-bay block advanced from No 54 India Street (see separate listing). Outer bays advanced, framed by Ionic pilasters to upper floors. Recessed doorpieces centred at principal floor and to left of central bay, comprising flush-panelled doors with rectangular fanlights; windows to right of centre bay and in bays to outer left and right; regular fenestration to floors above. Decorative cast-iron balconies in bays at 1st floor, except penultimate bay to left; window guards in bays centred at 3rd floor, and in penultimate bay to right at 3rd floor. 3-bay shop fronts at basement, flanking steps and entrance platts, with recessed flush-panelled doors and plate glass windows.
12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Harled ridge and wallhead stacks; coped with circular cans.
INTERIORS: not seen 1997.
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.
Gloucester Place, which links the Second New Town with the Moray Estate, was originally called King's Place, the name being changed in 1824.
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