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Latitude: 55.9554 / 55°57'19"N
Longitude: -3.1945 / 3°11'40"W
OS Eastings: 325515
OS Northings: 674238
OS Grid: NT255742
Mapcode National: GBR 8ND.FN
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.XK0W
Plus Code: 9C7RXR44+46
Entry Name: 9 North St David Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 7 and 9 North St David Street and Queen Street
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 370089
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29727
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200370089
Circa 1775; restored by Robert Hurd and Partners, 1980s. 3-storey basement and attic former tenement on corner site. Droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Channelled quoin strips.
ST DAVID STREET ELEVATION: 6-bay. 2-bay wallhead gable, with pair of architraved and corniced doorpieces to centre bays.
QUEEN STREET ELEVATION: 4-bay gable. Projecting 19th century shopfront removed at ground.
INTERIOR: now single office. Former flats with fanlit hallway; N rooms to each flat (with view to Leith) with fine carved and gesso timber chimneypieces; cornices survive throughout.
Listed at Category A 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. It is of note that these flats were built with Drawing Rooms taking advantage of the view to Leith, rather than being at the front of the building as was usual.
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