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Latitude: 55.9533 / 55°57'11"N
Longitude: -3.2068 / 3°12'24"W
OS Eastings: 324742
OS Northings: 674016
OS Grid: NT247740
Mapcode National: GBR 8KF.XD
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.QM4J
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ3V+87
Entry Name: 78A Queen Street, 78, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 78 and 78A Queen Street with Railings
Listing Date: 3 March 1966
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 369607
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29573
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 78, 78a Queen Street
ID on this website: 200369607
James Tait, 1790-2, with early 19th century alterations. 3-storey basement and attic, 4-bay (with set back blind bay to left) former classical terraced tenement with shops at ground; that to right built out at ground. Droved Craigleith sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Later front at ground with incised Soanian details and cornice; formerly 5-bay with pair of 2-bay shops flanking common stair; right shop now built out. At 1st floor, cill course, moulded architraves and cornices. Mutuled cornice and blocking course. Pair of tripartite box dormers.
3-bay rubble rear elevation.
Timber sash and case 12-pane windows. Large dressed stone mutual stacks; grey slates.
INTERIOR: right shop (No 78) with cornices; vestigial remains of former post office fittings; tripartite window to rear with swagged frieze.
RAILINGS: modern iron railings to surviving basement.
The skewed front is the result of the Earl of Moray's right of servitude relating to land which he owned at the W end of the New Town (later developed as the Moray Estate). Kirkwood suggests that it was originally one house. 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. A Group with 74-77 (inclusive nos) and 79, 79A and 80 Queen Street.
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