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Latitude: 55.9422 / 55°56'31"N
Longitude: -3.1859 / 3°11'9"W
OS Eastings: 326025
OS Northings: 672759
OS Grid: NT260727
Mapcode National: GBR 8QK.5D
Mapcode Global: WH6SM.1X51
Plus Code: 9C7RWRR7+VJ
Entry Name: 6 And 8A Hope Park Square, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 6 And 8A Hope Park Square, Edinburgh
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Last Amended: 17 July 2015
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 405369
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29096
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 6 And 8a Hope Park Square
ID on this website: 200405369
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: House
6 Hope Park Square (originally Hope House) was built by Sir Thomas Hope of Rankeillor. Sir Thomas Hope of Rankeillor laid out a park area on the neighbouring Meadows (originally Hope Park) from 1722 on the site of the drained Borough Loch.
In The Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh (1991), Gifford describes no. 6 Hope House as dating from circa 1725. McKean in Edinburgh; An Illustrated Architectural Guide (1992) dates the house to circa 1770.
No 6 Hope Park Square is first visible on Kincaid's map of 1784.
Tenements adjoining the house to the east and west were constructed in the mid-nineteenth century, creating the U plan Hope Park Square.
No 6 was Restored by Nicolas Groves-Raines in 1978.
Listed building record and statutory address updated (2015). Previously listed as 'Hope Park Square 6 and 8A'.
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