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Latitude: 55.9508 / 55°57'2"N
Longitude: -3.2087 / 3°12'31"W
OS Eastings: 324615
OS Northings: 673746
OS Grid: NT246737
Mapcode National: GBR 8KG.J9
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.PP7D
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ2R+8G
Entry Name: 12, 14, 16 Hope Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 12-16 (Even Nos) Hope Street
Listing Date: 3 March 1966
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 368334
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29094
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200368334
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Tenement
Circa 1790. 3-storey attic and basement, 7-bay classical tenement. Droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. V-jointed rustication at ground; eaves cornice. Central common stair bay slightly recessed; flanked by main door flats with round-headed doorpieces with radiating timber fanlights to inner bays. Windows at ground to right (No 16) arched. Piend-roofed dormers - bipartite to left, canted pair to right.
12-pane timber sash and case windows (multi-pane at ground to right). Ashlar coped skews; grey slates; rendered stack to S, ashlar to N.
INTERIOR: all one office; archway from hall to reception at No 16, with glazed screen to stair.
RAILINGS: spearhead cast-iron railings.
Forms important setting for Charlotte Square. The arched windows at ground were introduced in the early 20th century, and the rustication replaced to suit. A Group with Nos 2-10 (even nos) Hope Street as a significant surviving part of the original fabric of Edinburgh?s New Town, one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain.
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