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24 Hill Street, Edinburgh

A Category A Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9532 / 55°57'11"N

Longitude: -3.203 / 3°12'10"W

OS Eastings: 324977

OS Northings: 674010

OS Grid: NT249740

Mapcode National: GBR 8LF.PF

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.RMYJ

Plus Code: 9C7RXQ3W+7Q

Entry Name: 24 Hill Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 24 Hill Street

Listing Date: 3 March 1966

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 389752

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43305

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 24 Hill Street

ID on this website: 200389752

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Terrace house

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Description

James Hill, 1788-94. 3-storey and attic, 3-bay classical former house on corner site with ground falling to N (front). Droved cream ashlar sandstone (painted black) with polished dressings. Smaller windows at ground with cill course at ground; eaves course. Roman Doric pilastered and corniced tripartite doorpiece to left bay (panelled door). Pair of fine slate-hung piend-roofed bowed dormers.

Broad coursed rubble 2-bay gable with 3 windows and door at ground, blank at 1st floor. Irregular rubble 2-storey and attic rear elevation with projecting porch/closet at ground to right.

Timber sash and case 12-pane windows (20-pane to dormers). Ashlar coped skews; stone stacks, rebuilt to W, rendered to E; grey slates.

INTERIOR: full-width former Drawing room at 1st floor with recess and plaster panelled walls.

Statement of Interest

James Hill was a mason who built the street with finance from Robert Belshes of Greenyeards. Listed at Category A 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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