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Latitude: 55.9599 / 55°57'35"N
Longitude: -3.1954 / 3°11'43"W
OS Eastings: 325464
OS Northings: 674746
OS Grid: NT254747
Mapcode National: GBR 8NC.70
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.WGKD
Plus Code: 9C7RXR53+XR
Entry Name: 20, 22, 24 Scotland Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 20-24A (Even Nos) Scotland Street, Including Railings
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 370206
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29783
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 20, 22, 24 Scotland Street
ID on this website: 200370206
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, 7-bay (grouped 2-3-2), terraced tenement. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Band course at principal and 1st floors; projecting cills to 1st and 2nd floor windows; cornice to 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.
E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: part-glazed timber common stair door with blind rectangular fanlight, centred at principal floor; flanked by pair of 4-panel timber doors, decorative rectangular fanlight to left, plate glass rectangular fanlight to right. Windows in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above, and to basement. Vertically boarded timber cellar doors and segmental-arched doorway to No 24 at basement. Flagged basement area.
INTERIORS: not seen 1997, but some evidence of working panelled shutters.
Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Grey slate M-roof. Broached ashlar ridge stacks, coped, with circular cans.
RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by iron railings, with spear-headed balusters and pineapple 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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