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Latitude: 55.935 / 55°56'5"N
Longitude: -3.1757 / 3°10'32"W
OS Eastings: 326647
OS Northings: 671947
OS Grid: NT266719
Mapcode National: GBR 8SM.7Z
Mapcode Global: WH6ST.6300
Plus Code: 9C7RWRMF+XP
Entry Name: 1, 1A Middleby Street With Boundary Walls And Pedestrian Gate, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 1, 1A and 3 Middleby Street, Including Boundary Walls and Pedestrian Gate
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 369039
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29331
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 1, 1a Middleby Street With Boundary Walls And Pedestrian Gate
ID on this website: 200369039
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Building
Circa 1817. 2-storey and basement, 4 bay pair of symmetrical classical houses with single storey wing (1A) adjoining to E. Cream sandstone polished ashlar, rusticated at ground; rubble to E and rear. Base course; string course to ground floor; dividing band course; cill course, corniced architraves and cast iron palmette and anthemion pattern window guards to 1st floor windows; cornice; blocking course.
S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to round arched doorways to 2 central bays; panelled doors; umbrella fanlights; engaged Tuscan columns to doorpieces; single windows to 1st floor above; single windows set in round arched panels to ground floor to outer left and right; single windows to 1st floor above. Single storey wing to E; 2 bay; modern door to outer right; single window to left.
E (DALKEITH ROAD) ELEVATION: 3 bay; single storey wing at ground; regular fenestration to 1st floor above.
Plate glass, timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof; corniced and coped wallhead stacks; octagonal moulded cans.
INTERIOR: not seen 1996.
BOUNDARY WALLS: low droved and coped boundary wall to street; pedestrian gate adjoining house to W.
Middleby Street is part of the Blacket development feued by Benjamin and George Bell: it takes its name from their Dumfriesshire estate of Blacket which was in the parish of Middlebie. No 3 has been subdivided into flats.
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