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Latitude: 55.9558 / 55°57'20"N
Longitude: -3.1916 / 3°11'29"W
OS Eastings: 325696
OS Northings: 674283
OS Grid: NT256742
Mapcode National: GBR 8PD.0H
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.YKCK
Plus Code: 9C7RXR45+89
Entry Name: 9-13 York Place, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 9-13 (Odd Nos) York Place, Including Railings
Listing Date: 14 September 1966
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 370687
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29961
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 9-13 York Place
ID on this website: 200370687
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Terrace house
Late 18th century. 3-storey, attic and basement, 7-bay classical terrace. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor; squared and snecked rubble at basement. Base course; band courses between basement and principal floor, and between principal and 1st floors; mutuled cornice at 2nd floor. Projecting cills at 2nd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.
N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: architraved and corniced doorpiece with 6-panel timber common stair door and 3-pane rectangular fanlight centred at principal floor, flanked by round-arched doorpieces with panelled timber doors and semicircular fanlights, radial to right, plate glass to left; regular fenestration to remaining bays at principal floor, and to floors above and basement. Flagged basement area.
W ELEVATION: adjoining building, see separate listing (7 York Place).
E ELEVATION: adjoining building, see separate listing (15-19A York Place).
S (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen, 1998.
Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Anthemion and palmette window guards at 1st floor of No 13. Grey slate roof. Slate-hung tripartite rectangular dormer and recessed slate-hung lead-roofed rectangular dormer to right; pair of slate-hung bowed dormers to left. Modern skylights. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered gablehead stack, coursed rubble gablehead stack with broached ashlar dressings, rubble stack with broached ashlar dressings breaking pitch, rendered stack breaking pitch; coped, with circular cans. Coped skews.
INTERIORS: not seen, 1998.
RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with spear-headed and urn finials.
Part of the Edinburgh New Town A Group, a significant surviving part of one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain. Feuing in York Place began in 1793, after Lord Alva sold land to the north east of St Andrew Square to the city.
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