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Latitude: 55.9558 / 55°57'20"N
Longitude: -3.2054 / 3°12'19"W
OS Eastings: 324835
OS Northings: 674292
OS Grid: NT248742
Mapcode National: GBR 8LD.6J
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.QKTL
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ4V+8V
Entry Name: 17, 19, 21 India Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 17-21A (Odd Nos) India Street, Including Railings and Lamps
Listing Date: 3 October 1967
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 368412
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29129
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200368412
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Traquair Dobson, 1823. 4-storey and basement, 8-bay near-symmetrical tenement in terraced site. Broached sandstone ashlar, channelled at principal floor. Cill course to 1st and 2nd floors; band course to principal floor; blocking course. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: flush-panelled common stair door to right of centre, with flush-panelled doors in bays 3rd from right and 3rd from left; rectangular fanlights; windows in remaining principal floor bays. Regular fenestration to floors above. Contemporary cast-iron balconies in 4 bays to left at 3rd floor. Flagged basement area; coped broached retaining walls; vertically boarded timber doors to cellars.
S ELEVATION (JAMAICA STREET WEST RETURN): broached rubble; windows at centre to all floors.
Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered ridge stack at centre, rendered gablehead stack to N, ashlar gablehead stack to S; coped, with circular cans.
INTERIORS: not seen 1997, but some evidence of working panelled shutters.
RAILINGS AND LAMPS: ashlar copes, surmounted by cast-iron railings with fleur-de-lis balusters and pineapple finials. Cast-iron railing-mounted lamps with glass globes.
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. Traquair Dobson lived at No 19; No 19 was restored by the Edinburgh New Town Conservation Committee in 1986.
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