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Latitude: 55.9594 / 55°57'33"N
Longitude: -3.1952 / 3°11'42"W
OS Eastings: 325476
OS Northings: 674691
OS Grid: NT254746
Mapcode National: GBR 8NC.86
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.WGNS
Plus Code: 9C7RXR53+QW
Entry Name: 8 Scotland Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 4-10B (Even Nos) Scotland Street, Including Railings
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 370201
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29780
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 8 Scotland Street
ID on this website: 200370201
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Robert Reid and William Sibbald, 1801-4. 4-storey and basement, 12-bay terraced tenement, with 4th storey as wallhead attic. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Band courses between basement and principal floor, principal floor and 1st floor; projecting cills to 1st and 2nd floor windows; cornice at 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.
E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 4-panel timber doors with rectilinear rectangular fanlights in bays 3rd and 6th from left, and 3rd and 4th from right; windows in remaining bays at principal floor, regular fenestration to floors above, with blind windows in bay 5th from left at 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors, regular fenestration at basement.
N ELEVATION: coursed rubble gable, predominantly blank, with corniced doorpiece, flanked by windows to left of centre at basement, windows centred to floors above.
S ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (21-30 Drummond Place).
Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered ridge stack, ashlar gablehead stack, with broached ashlar quoins; coped, with circular cans.
INTERIORS: not seen, 1997, but some evidence of working panelled shutters.
RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with some spear-headed balusters and urn finials.
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. For mews to rear, see separate listing (West Scotland Street Lane).
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