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17 Great Stuart Street, Edinburgh

A Category A Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9525 / 55°57'9"N

Longitude: -3.2115 / 3°12'41"W

OS Eastings: 324445

OS Northings: 673939

OS Grid: NT244739

Mapcode National: GBR 8JF.ZP

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.MNX2

Plus Code: 9C7RXQ3Q+29

Entry Name: 17 Great Stuart Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 7-19 (Odd Nos) Great Stuart Street, Including Railings

Listing Date: 14 December 1970

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 367942

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28967

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200367942

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

James Gillespie Graham, designed 1822, with later additions. 3-storey and basement, 23-bay classical terrace, comprising 15-bay central terrace, flanked by pair of advanced 4-bay terminal pavilions. Polished ashlar sandstone, V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Base course; band course between basement and principal floor; corniced frieze at impost level at principal floor of terminal pavilions; cill course at 1st and 2nd floors; cornice at 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION, CENTRAL TERRACE: 5 3-bay houses, with doors in bays to left at principal floor, comprising 4-panel timber doors, upper panels glazed at Nos 9 and 11, with plate glass rectangular fanlights. Windows in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above; architraved with cornices at 1st floor, architraved at 2nd floor, predominantly architraved at 3rd floor. Flagged basement area.

SE ELEVATION, TERMINAL PAVILIONS: pair of 4-storey and basement, 4-bay terminal pavilions. Doric pilasters flanking bays at 1st and 2nd floors; panelled pilasters flanking bays at 3rd floors. 4-panel timber doors with radial semicircular fanlights in penultimate bay from right at No 7 and in penultimate bay from left at No 19, at principal floors, with radial semicircular fanlights. Windows in round-arched recesses in remaining bays at principal floors; regular fenestration to floors above. Flagged basement area

RANDOLPH CRESCENT RETURN TO W TERMINAL PAVILION: 4-bay, becoming 9 Randolph Crescent (see separate listing).

AINSLIE PLACE RETURN TO E TERMINAL PAVILION: 4-bay, becoming 15 Ainslie Place (see separate listing).

REAR ELEVATION: not seen, 1998.

Predominantly plate glass timber sash and case windows, multi-pane timber sash and case windows at No 9, and at 1st floor of No 11. Anthemion and palmette window guards at 1st floor. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Broached ashlar ridge stacks; coped, with circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1998; evidence of working panelled shutters.

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with fleur-de-lis finials.

Statement of Interest

Part of the Edinburgh New Town A Group, a significant surviving part of one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain. The Moray Estate was planned for the 10th Earl of Moray (1771-1848). He inherited the 13 acre site from his father, after it was acquired from the Heriot Trust in 1782, and decided to feu the property for development in 1822. The complicated plan, with the crescent, oval and polygon of Randolph Crescent, Ainslie Place and Moray Place respectively, all linked by Great Stuart Street, conjoins the New Town with the Second New Town. Building was completed in 1830-31.

W H Playfair, Sir Robert Lorimer and Ian G Lindsay had their offices at No 17 Great Stuart Street.

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