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23, 24, 25 Queen Street, Edinburgh

A Category A Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9546 / 55°57'16"N

Longitude: -3.1991 / 3°11'56"W

OS Eastings: 325224

OS Northings: 674156

OS Grid: NT252741

Mapcode National: GBR 8MD.HY

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.TLSH

Plus Code: 9C7RXR32+R9

Entry Name: 23, 24, 25 Queen Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 23-25 (Inclusive Nos) Queen Street with Railings

Listing Date: 14 December 1970

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 369572

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29545

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 23, 24, 25 Queen Street

ID on this website: 200369572

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1785; No 23 extended to rear by Peddie and Kinnear, 1864. 3-storey basement and attic, 7-bay former pair of classical houses with flats above. Cleaned droved ashlar Craigleith sandstone. Regular fenestration. At centre, steps to architraved and corniced doorpiece with 3-pane fanlight; formerly to common stair, now stair removed and glazed inner door serves as window to office; flanked by pilastered doorpieces with fluted frieze and dentilled cornice (that at right modern reinstatement); flush panelled doors with Edinburgh handles. Piend-roofed dormers; 3 at centre, flanked by large dissimilar tripartite ones.

Irregular 4-storey 4-bay coursed rubble rear elevation; some enlarged windows to E.

Timber sash and case windows; plate glass, except 12-pane to central bay and dormers. Grey slates; ashlar coped mutual skews; dressed stone mutual stacks, reduced to E (and lead covered with the skew).

INTERIOR: not seen 1995. Central curving cantilevered stairs; tenement stair removed at ground.

RAILINGS: cast-iron fleur-de-lys railings.

Statement of Interest

Double uppers now incorporated into No 23. 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; Queen Street was built to take advantage of the northern views, and has survived remarkably unaltered to this day.

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