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7, 9 Spottiswoode Street, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Morningside, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9389 / 55°56'19"N

Longitude: -3.1984 / 3°11'54"W

OS Eastings: 325238

OS Northings: 672406

OS Grid: NT252724

Mapcode National: GBR 8ML.MK

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.VZ4K

Plus Code: 9C7RWRQ2+GJ

Entry Name: 7, 9 Spottiswoode Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 7-9 (Odd Nos) Spottiswoode Street

Listing Date: 19 March 1993

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371637

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30596

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 7, 9 Spottiswoode Street

ID on this website: 200371637

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Morningside

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Architectural structure

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Description

George Wilson, 1880. 4-storey, 4-bay tenement , forming part of terrace. Squared and snecked sandstone with contrasting polished ashlar dressings. Base course; cill courses at 1st and 3rd floors; corbel table at 3rd floor stpeed down to 2nd floor between central bays; chamfered reveals. E ENTRANCE elevation: paired roll-moulded doorways in 3rd bay; panelled doors; border-gazed fanlights; single windows above; scrolled open pediment to 3rd floor window. Single windows in 2nd bay; scrolled open pediment to 3rd floor window. Gable with gablehead stack, scroll skewputts and kneelers linking 2nd and 3rd bays; blinded roundel set in gablehead. Full-height advanced tripartite windows in bays to outer left and right; dividing cornice at 1st floor; eaves cornice; piended roofs with lead finials. Plate glass sash and case windows surrounds painted at 1st floor to right. Grey slate roof; coped gablehead stack; coped mutual stacks; crowstepped gable adjoining tenement to N. INTERIORS: not seen 1991.

Low coped boundary to street.

Statement of Interest

Designed for Simon Henderson, master baker.

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