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Latitude: 55.9536 / 55°57'13"N
Longitude: -3.2019 / 3°12'6"W
OS Eastings: 325045
OS Northings: 674051
OS Grid: NT250740
Mapcode National: GBR 8LF.X8
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.SMG7
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ3X+C6
Entry Name: 5-7 Hill Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 5-9 (Odd Nos) Hill Street
Listing Date: 3 March 1966
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 389738
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43296
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 5 - 7 Hill Street
ID on this website: 200389738
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Terrace house
James Hill, 1788-94 with later alterations. 3, 3-storey and attic, 3-bay classical former houses with mirrored pair to E (Nos 5 and 7) slightly stepped up. Droved cream ashlar sandstone with polished dressings (stonecleaned). Smaller windows with cill course at ground; eaves course. Broad tripartite architraved doorpieces with fluted frieze and mutuled cornice to W bay and inner bays of pair; flush-panelled doors, blocked as window to No 9. Nos 7 and 9 with matching early 20th century mansard roofs, each with 3 pedimented timber dormers; bipartite piend-roofed dormer to No 5.
Irregular coursed rubble 2-bay rear elevations with tripartite windows at 1st floor; 4-storey piend-roofed projecting stair tower to No 9, later rendered projecting bay to No 7.
Timber sash and case 12-pane windows. Ashlar coped skews; stone stacks, rendered to W; grey slates.
INTERIOR: not seen 1995.
James Hill was a mason who built the street with finance from Robert Belshes of Greenyeards. A match for, and partly the same build as,
Nos 1-15. Listed at Category A, despite the regrettable mansard, as a significant surviving part of the original fabric of Edinburgh?s New Town, one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain.
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