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3 Merchant Street, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9478 / 55°56'51"N

Longitude: -3.1923 / 3°11'32"W

OS Eastings: 325639

OS Northings: 673390

OS Grid: NT256733

Mapcode National: GBR 8NH.WC

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.YR1Q

Plus Code: 9C7RWRX5+43

Entry Name: 3 Merchant Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 3 Merchant Street

Listing Date: 15 July 1983

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 369037

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29329

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 3 Merchant Street

ID on this website: 200369037

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Robert Burn, 1810. 4-storey attic and basement tenement. Droved ashlar with polished dressings. Regularly fenestrated. Raised margins to windows. Window to left of door in keystoned round-arched recess. Stone steps and platts with cast-iron railings over-arching basement area. Deep-set timber panelled door with 3-pane glazed fanlight in Doric pilastered doorpiece with fluted frieze. Later piend-roofed dormers.

12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Corniced end stack with circular cans.

Statement of Interest

Merchant Street was laid out by James Craig in 1774. George IV Bridge (Thomas Hamilton, 1829-43) cut right through Merchant Street, and Dean of Guild drawings show that Nos 17-19 George IV Bridge were built on top of No 5 Merchant Street, which was also designed by Burn, and mirrored No 3.

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