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49 Northumberland Street, Edinburgh

A Category A Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9568 / 55°57'24"N

Longitude: -3.2004 / 3°12'1"W

OS Eastings: 325148

OS Northings: 674403

OS Grid: NT251744

Mapcode National: GBR 8MD.74

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.TJ6S

Plus Code: 9C7RXQ4X+PR

Entry Name: 49 Northumberland Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 49 Northumberland Street

Listing Date: 24 May 1966

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 369472

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29480

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200369472

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Robert Reid and William Sibbald, early 19th century, with circa 1900 attic. 2-storey, attic and basement, 3-bay terraced house. Polished ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at basement. Base course; band courses between basement and principal floor, principal floor and 1st floor; cill course at 1st floor; mutuled cornice and blocking course at 1st floor. Windows in round-arched recesses at principal floor; architraved windows with cornices at 1st floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: round-arched doorpiece in bay to left at principal floor, with panelled timber door and radial semicircular fanlight. Regular fenestration to remaining bays at principal floor and to 1st floor and basement.

E ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (43-47 Northumberland Street).

W ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (51-61 Northumberland Street).

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof; long 8-light box dormer. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered ridge stack; coped, with circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1997.

RAILINGS AND LAMPS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with spear-headed balusters and urn finials. Cast-iron railing-mounted lamps with glass globes.

Statement of Interest

Part of the Second New Town A Group, a significant surviving part of one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain.

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