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Latitude: 55.9558 / 55°57'21"N
Longitude: -3.1938 / 3°11'37"W
OS Eastings: 325559
OS Northings: 674289
OS Grid: NT255742
Mapcode National: GBR 8ND.KH
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.XKBJ
Plus Code: 9C7RXR44+8F
Entry Name: York Buildings, Queen Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: Queen Street, 2 York Buildings
Listing Date: 5 February 1997
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 390535
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43887
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, Queen Street, York Buildings
ID on this website: 200390535
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Office building
Robert Raeburn, 1875; porch by Herbert Ryle, Office of Works, 1919. 3-storey and attic, near symmetrical rectangular-plan stripped French Empire shops and offices. Polished sandstone ashlar. Arcaded ground floor; band course above; bracketed cills to architraved 1st floor windows; cill course to segmented arched 2nd floor windows; band course above; bracketed cornice; round-headed dormers; Mansard pavilion roofs.
S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: advanced 5-bay pavilions to outer left and right; 4 dormers; central sections of pavilion roof raised with decorative iron brattishing. Central 14-bay block. Single storey, flat-roofed porch adjoining pavilion to outer right; channelled ashlar; round-arched doorway incorporating tripartite doorpiece and swan-neck pediment; 2-leaf panelled door; parapet with raised central block.
E ELEVATION: linked to 2 Dublin Street (see separate listing); porch at ground; single windows and dormers in bays to outer left and right above; central wallhead stack.
W ELEVATION: single window at ground; 3 windows to each floor above; shouldered wallhead stacks to outer left and right; 2 dormers between.
Plate glass timber sash and case windows to 1st and 2nd floor and dormers; plate glass shop windows with timber aprons at ground. Grey slate Mansard roof; corniced wallhead stacks and ridge stack.
Part of the Second New Town A Group, built as shops with offices above, for the upholsterer, John Boyd.
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