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Latitude: 55.9545 / 55°57'16"N
Longitude: -3.1961 / 3°11'45"W
OS Eastings: 325414
OS Northings: 674138
OS Grid: NT254741
Mapcode National: GBR 8ND.3Z
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.WL7L
Plus Code: 9C7RXR33+QH
Entry Name: 4 Thistle Court, Thistle Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: Thistle Street, 3 and 4 Thistle Court with Lamp Brackets, Boundary Walls, Gates and Railings
Listing Date: 13 January 1966
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 389813
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43351
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, Thistle Street, 4 Thistle Court
ID on this website: 200389813
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
1767-8; subsequent alterations. 2-storey and attic pair of 2-bay semi-detached classical houses, now electrical sub-station. Sandstone rubble (some red) with ashlar dressings. At centre, pair of corniced architraved doorpieces with central wrought-iron lamp bracket. Flanked by 2 bays to each side; to S, projecting corniced tripartite window at ground; larger windows at 1st floor. Eaves cornice; open-pedimented ashlar wallhead dormer to S with canted slate-hung slides; piend-roofed tripartite dormer to N.
Irregular gable end with garage door created at ground. Rear elevation with further openings created at ground.
Timber sash and case windows. Ashlar coped skews; grey slates; stone stacks.
INTERIOR: not seen 1995; now electricity sub-station.
FORECOURT WITH BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS, GATES AND RAILINGS: ashlar coped rubble walls enclose forecourt; iron gates with thistle fretwork. Ashlar footings and modern railings mark site of former well (?). Pair of corniced gatepiers with flattened pyramidal copes.
One of a pair facing each other across courtyard perpendicular to Thistle Street. Probably the earliest surviving buildings in Edinburgh?s New Town, one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain. This pair was clearly built soon after Nos 1 and 2 (see separate listing).
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