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Latitude: 55.9418 / 55°56'30"N
Longitude: -3.2055 / 3°12'19"W
OS Eastings: 324800
OS Northings: 672743
OS Grid: NT248727
Mapcode National: GBR 8LK.6H
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.QXR9
Plus Code: 9C7RWQRV+PQ
Entry Name: 8 Gilmore Place, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 8-24 (Even Nos) Gilmore Place Including Boundary Walls and Railings
Listing Date: 21 June 1982
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 367550
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28910
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200367550
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Later 19th century. Terrace of 2-storey, 3-bay houses. Coursed sandstone with polished dressings. Base course; eaves cornice and blocking course. Entrances in left bays; timber panelled doors with plate glass fanlights in moulded surrounds with consoled cornices; Doric-pilastered architrave to No 24, later pediment to No 22. Regularly fenestrated (bipartites to right bay of No 8, tripartite to 2nd floor of No 22); windows in moulded architraves.
Predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case windows (8-pane glazing to Nos 12 and 24). Later slate-hung dormers (mostly tripartite) to attics. Cast-iron down pipes with decorative hoppers. Graded grey slates. Stone skews. Corniced stone stacks with circular cans.
BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS: low boundary walls to front gardens with some cast-iron railings.
Built from the W towards the E. The site is still shown as a rope walk on the 1853 OS map; 1877 OS map shows the terrace complete.
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