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17 Queen Street, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9548 / 55°57'17"N

Longitude: -3.1983 / 3°11'53"W

OS Eastings: 325275

OS Northings: 674176

OS Grid: NT252741

Mapcode National: GBR 8MD.NW

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.VL5C

Plus Code: 9C7RXR32+WM

Entry Name: 17 Queen Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 114 and 118 Hanover Street and 17 and 17A Queen Street with Railings

Listing Date: 3 March 1966

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 369568

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29541

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 17 Queen Street

ID on this website: 200369568

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1785; alterations at basement. 3-storey on raised basement and attic classical tenement on corner site with shops built out at basement. Droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished ashlar. Long and short quoins

QUEEN STREET ELEVATION: 4-bay. Canted piend-roofed dormer to right.

HANOVER STREET ELEVATION: Irregular 3-bay to right with 2-bay wing to left; inner bays with pair of architraved doorcases deep set in square-cut rusticated surround with cornice; panelled doors, 8-pane fanlight to left, plate glass to right. Wing with 2 piend-roofed dormers, that to left canted.

Timber sash and case windows; plate glass, 4-pane and 12-pane. Ashlar coped skews; rendered stacks.

INTERIOR: main door flat at No 118 with pilastered inner arched doorway with fanlight and stairs to basement (chimneypieces removed). 1st and 2nd floor flats both divided; Dining Room and Drawing Rooms facing Queen Street, Drawing Room on corner at 2nd floor with grey marble chimneypiece, black slate chimneypiece to Dining Room. Single attic flat.

RAILINGS: cast-iron spearhead railings to Hanover Street.

Statement of Interest

A Group with Nos 92-112 (even nos) Hanover Street and Nos 18-38 (inclusive nos) Queen Street as a significant surviving part of the original fabric of Edinburgh?s New Town, one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain.

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