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Latitude: 55.9597 / 55°57'34"N
Longitude: -3.1699 / 3°10'11"W
OS Eastings: 327059
OS Northings: 674690
OS Grid: NT270746
Mapcode National: GBR 8TC.D3
Mapcode Global: WH6SM.8GSL
Plus Code: 9C7RXR5J+V3
Entry Name: 23 Edina Place, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 21-27 Edina Place (Odd Numbers) and 26 Norton Park (Former Edina Works)
Listing Date: 15 November 1991
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 371080
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30271
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 23 Edina Place
ID on this website: 200371080
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Leith Walk
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
1878. 2-storey, 20- by 4-bay, with 3- by 2-bay office wing at E end. L-plan Italianate printing works (now in residential use). Polychrome brickwork. Cill and lintel bands cream terracotta; bands of black brick; basecourse. Consoled cornice with square cast-iron gutter above. Paired windows in bays separated by brick pilasters. Transomed windows to ground floor.
Flat roof. Non-traditional glazing.
S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION, MAIN BLOCK: doors in left-hand opening of every 3rd bay. Square light above each door.
W ELEVATION, OFFICE WING: regularly spaced pilasters as above. Slightly irregular fenestration with some later alterations to outer right and central bays. Central pediment feature above cornice; bracket supports; finial; monogram and inscriptions:
"THE BUSINESS FOUNDED 1825 THIS BUILDING ERECTED 1878"
Built for W & K Johnston, the map makers, as a printing works. They later branched out into other types of printing, including bank notes. Now divided into flats for residential use. Later ancillary buildings have all been removed. So has the original chimney to the office block. A fine specimen of polychromy, one of Edinburgh's best. The printing industry was a particularly important one in the capital.
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