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40 Lauriston Street, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.945 / 55°56'41"N

Longitude: -3.2009 / 3°12'3"W

OS Eastings: 325092

OS Northings: 673087

OS Grid: NT250730

Mapcode National: GBR 8MJ.3D

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.STYW

Plus Code: 9C7RWQVX+XJ

Entry Name: 40 Lauriston Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 40 Lauriston Street, Edinburgh

Listing Date: 12 December 1974

Last Amended: 17 July 2015

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 405440

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30128

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 40 Lauriston Street

ID on this website: 200405440

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Earlier 19th century. 4-storey, 5-bay plain classical tenement. Droved ashlar sandstone. Base course; eaves cornice. Narrow polished ashlar surrounds to windows. Long and short quoins. Regularly fenestrated. Doric-pilastered doorpiece with foliate necking; fluted frieze with rosettes to cornice.

12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows.

Statement of Interest

B group comprises Nos 40 and 46 Lauriston Street. Although these buildings look earlier, they do not appear on maps until 1851.

Individual estates to the west and south of the West Port (originally Portsburgh) began to be developed from the late eighteenth century onwards. Lauriston Street appears laid out on Kincaid's map 1784. The tenement at 40 Lauriston Street is first visible on the Ordnance Survey map of 1851.

Listed building record and statutory address updated (2015). Previously listed as '40 Lauriston Street'.

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