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Latitude: 55.9593 / 55°57'33"N
Longitude: -3.2069 / 3°12'24"W
OS Eastings: 324746
OS Northings: 674689
OS Grid: NT247746
Mapcode National: GBR 8KC.X7
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.QG3W
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ5V+P6
Entry Name: 70-82 Hamilton Place, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 70-88 Hamilton Place, Edinburgh
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Last Amended: 17 July 2015
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 405422
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28996
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 70-82 Hamilton Place
ID on this website: 200405422
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Inverleith
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
The estates surrounding the old village of Stockbridge, to the northwest of the New Town, were feued for residential development from circa 1813.
Hamilton Place was built on the estate of Mr Muir. A development plan for St Stephen Street and Clarence Street was assembled by James Peddie in the early 1820s. The architect for the scheme was Robert Brown who also designed nos 70-88 Hamilton Place as continuation of the corner of Clarence Street.
The tenement block on the eastern end of Hamilton Place appears on the Great Reform Act map of 1832.
Robert Brown, (d. 1832) Architect practiced predominantly in Edinburgh and was responsible for the layout of a number of building estates in the New Town of Edinburgh.
Listed building record and statutory address updated (2015). Previously listed as 'Hamilton Place 70-88'.
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