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30 Forth Street, 28, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9581 / 55°57'29"N

Longitude: -3.1865 / 3°11'11"W

OS Eastings: 326018

OS Northings: 674535

OS Grid: NT260745

Mapcode National: GBR 8QC.1N

Mapcode Global: WH6SM.0HWS

Plus Code: 9C7RXR57+6C

Entry Name: 30 Forth Street, 28, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 28 and 30 Forth Street

Listing Date: 16 June 1966

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 393022

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45955

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 28, 30 Forth Street

ID on this website: 200393022

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Robert Burn, 1800. 2-storey with mansard attic and basement, terraced corner tenement with bowed corner bay. Sandstone ashlar. Base course, band course between floors, cill band with blind balustrade ashlar aprons, eaves cornice and blocking course, columned and corniced doorpiece with decorative capitals and rosette motif, entrance platts oversailing basement.

S (FORTH STREET) ELEVATION: broad tripartite timber panelled door with round-arched fanlight (radial glazing) in 3rd bay, windows to bays remaining, regular fenestration above with dormer windows to attic, bipartite to left. Bowed corner with windows in each floor to left, windows to right blinded for symmetry, dormers above.

E (SIDE) ELEVATION: pilastered and corniced doorpiece to left with small window just above, window blocked for symmetry to right, regular fenestration blocked for symmetry above, small bipartite box dormer above, wall-head stack swept at base.

Timber sash and case with 12-pane glazing, grey slates, wallhead stack with terracotta can, skews, cast iron railings.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

Statement of Interest

Originally listed with Nos 12-26 (even Nos) Forth Street

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