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27, 28, 29 High Street, South Queensferry

A Category B Listed Building in Almond, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9901 / 55°59'24"N

Longitude: -3.3957 / 3°23'44"W

OS Eastings: 313032

OS Northings: 678335

OS Grid: NT130783

Mapcode National: GBR 20.VR2D

Mapcode Global: WH6S9.TP6T

Plus Code: 9C7RXJR3+2P

Entry Name: 27, 28, 29 High Street, South Queensferry

Listing Name: 27, 28 and 29 High Street

Listing Date: 22 February 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 386304

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB40380

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: South Queensferry, 27, 28, 29 High Street

ID on this website: 200386304

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Almond

Traditional County: West Lothian

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Description

Mid 18th century, 19th century alterations. 2-storey and attic. Shop (empty) and tenement. Painted square and snecked rubble 1st floor; quoining at 1st floor. Base course; 1st floor cornice; eaves band course and cornice. Chamfered moulded architraves to ground floor. Raised and painted margins to 1st floor.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: central doorway (No. 29) with emphatic Gibbsian surround; single window at 1st floor above. 2 dummy doors and shop window to right. Door with flanking shop windows to left. Regular 5-bay fenestration at 1st floor. Dormer window to left; attic window to left of centre; canted dormer window to right.

W ELEVATION: blank west gable where adjoining building demolished.

N ELEVATION: later extension; pair piended roofs; 4-bay; regular fenestration.

E ELEVATION: adjoining building.

Modern glazing at ground floor; single pane sash and case at 1st floor; 2-pane sash and case in dormers. Grey slated roof; straight stone skews to south; large scroll skewputts to front; crowstepped skew to north. Short harled stack to left; tall rubble stack with cornice to right; tall harled stack to rear.

INTERIOR: not seen 2000.

Statement of Interest

The fine Gibbsian door surround and scrolled skewputts are very unusual features within Queensferry.

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