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9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19 Pitt Street, Leith, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9732 / 55°58'23"N

Longitude: -3.1878 / 3°11'16"W

OS Eastings: 325966

OS Northings: 676219

OS Grid: NT259762

Mapcode National: GBR 8P6.S7

Mapcode Global: WH6SM.0485

Plus Code: 9C7RXRF6+7V

Entry Name: 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19 Pitt Street, Leith, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 9-19 (Odd Nos) Pitt Street with Railings and Lamp Standard; EH6 4BX

Listing Date: 30 March 1994

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 364411

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27298

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200364411

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Leith Walk

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Tenement

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Description

Circa 1830. 3-storey and basement 9-bay symmetrical, classical tenement with 2 main door flats. Cleaned cream sandstone, rusticated at ground floor, droved to basement and upper floors; polished dressings. Base course; band course above rustication; cill course to 1st floor; cornice and blocking course. Regular fenestration; rectangular sunburst fanlights; steps oversailing basement recess to panelled doors. Deep-set doors.

S (PITT STREET) ELEVATION: tenement door at centre; main doors to 3rd and 7th bays with blind windows to each floor above.

E (TRAFALGAR LANE) ELEVATION: 3-storey 2-bay rubble gable; all windows blind except bottom right. Pair of apex stacks, later raised, with ashlar skews.

Rubble 6-bay rear elevation.

12-pane timber sash and case windows; some plate glass and tilt-and-swing replacements. Grey slates; coped rendered stacks on ashlar bases; ashlar coped skews.

RAILINGS AND STANDARD: cast-iron spearhead railings on saddleback ashlar base to steps and basement area. Cast-iron cradle-headed oil lamp standard (glass shade missing) to left.

Statement of Interest

Part of a continuous terrace with 1-29 Pitt Street (see separate listings). These streets were laid out by Robert Burn in 1808.

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