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Latitude: 55.9551 / 55°57'18"N
Longitude: -3.1937 / 3°11'37"W
OS Eastings: 325564
OS Northings: 674205
OS Grid: NT255742
Mapcode National: GBR 8ND.LR
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.XLC3
Plus Code: 9C7RXR44+2G
Entry Name: 24 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 24 St Andrew Square with Railings
Listing Date: 13 April 1965
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 370022
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29701
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200370022
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
William Chambers, 1770-2; refronted by Dick, Peddie & McKay, with modern office behind, 1970. 3-storey basement and attic, 5-bay classical office facade. Cream sandstone ashlar front. Moulded architraves; flanked by channelled pilaster strips. Roman Doric porch to inner right bay. Pair of canted timber flat-roofed dormers.
Timber sash and case multi-pane windows. Lead coped mutual skews; mutual stacks, dressed stone to E, rendered to W; grey slates.
Microtiled stepped 6-storey rear elevation.
INTERIOR: modern office.
RAILINGS: plain modern iron railings.
Built with Nos 23-26 by ?the joint purses of Sir John Whitefoord, Sir Robert Murray and Gilbert Meason?. Chambers designed Meason?s house at No 26, so presumably the others as well. A Group with Nos 21-26 St Andrew Square as part of Edinburgh?s New Town, one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain.
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