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Latitude: 55.9566 / 55°57'23"N
Longitude: -3.1996 / 3°11'58"W
OS Eastings: 325197
OS Northings: 674383
OS Grid: NT251743
Mapcode National: GBR 8MD.D6
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.TJKY
Plus Code: 9C7RXR42+M5
Entry Name: 40 Northumberland Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 38-40A (Even Nos) Northumberland Street, Including Railings and Lamps
Listing Date: 24 May 1966
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 369386
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29457
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 40 Northumberland Street
ID on this website: 200369386
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Robert Reid and William Sibbald, early 19th century. 3-storey and basement, 6-bay terraced tenement. Polished ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Base course; band courses between basement and principal floor, principal and 1st floors, 1st and 2nd floors; cill course at 1st floor; cornice and blocking course at 2nd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.
N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: pair of 9-panel timber doors in central bays, with radial rectangular fanlights. Regular fenestration to remaining bays at principal floor and to floors above and basement.
E ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (18-20 Dundas Street).
W ELEVATION: coursed rubble gable, comprising architraved doorpiece with cornice, centred at principal floor, windows centred to floors above.
Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered wallhead 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 spear-headed balusters and urn 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.
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