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Latitude: 55.9351 / 55°56'6"N
Longitude: -3.1933 / 3°11'35"W
OS Eastings: 325547
OS Northings: 671980
OS Grid: NT255719
Mapcode National: GBR 8NM.NX
Mapcode Global: WH6SS.X2JX
Plus Code: 9C7RWRP4+2M
Entry Name: 2 Beaufort Road, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 2-6 (Inclusive Nos) Beaufort Road
Listing Date: 15 January 1992
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 371196
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30342
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 2 Beaufort Road
ID on this website: 200371196
John C Hay, 1880. 4-storey, 5-bay Scottish 17th century style tenement with shops at ground. Squared and snecked red and pink sandstone with contrasting polished ashlar dressings. Cornice above shops; string course above 1st floor; corbel table at 3rd floor; crowstepped gables; contrasting long and short quoins; finialled pediments; chamfered reveals.
S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 4 shops at ground floor with mixture of stone and cast-iron capitalled pilasters and columns to shopfronts; central doorway to tenement; panelled door; plate glass fanlight. Full-height conted windows above shops to outer right and penultimate left, corbelled to square at gablehead with blank heraldic tablets inset. Bipartite windows in bay to outer left, breaking eaves at 3rd floor in pedimented dormerhead with small patera inset. Single windows in remaining bays, 3rd floor windows breaking eaves in pedimented dormerheads. Hoodmoulding over square blank tablet.
E ELEVATION: single window at ground; 2 small single windsows at each floor above.
4-pane plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; corniced wallhead stacks; moulded octagonal cans; scrolled skewputts.
INTERIORS: not seen 1990.
Forms continuous irregular terrace with 77-129 (odd nos) Marchmont Road and 7-10 (inclusive) Beaufort Road.
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