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Latitude: 55.9901 / 55°59'24"N
Longitude: -3.3957 / 3°23'44"W
OS Eastings: 313032
OS Northings: 678335
OS Grid: NT130783
Mapcode National: GBR 20.VR2D
Mapcode Global: WH6S9.TP6T
Plus Code: 9C7RXJR3+2P
Entry Name: 27, 28, 29 High Street, South Queensferry
Listing Name: 27, 28 and 29 High Street
Listing Date: 22 February 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 386304
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB40380
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200386304
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Almond
Traditional County: West Lothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Mid 18th century, 19th century alterations. 2-storey and attic. Shop (empty) and tenement. Painted square and snecked rubble 1st floor; quoining at 1st floor. Base course; 1st floor cornice; eaves band course and cornice. Chamfered moulded architraves to ground floor. Raised and painted margins to 1st floor.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: central doorway (No. 29) with emphatic Gibbsian surround; single window at 1st floor above. 2 dummy doors and shop window to right. Door with flanking shop windows to left. Regular 5-bay fenestration at 1st floor. Dormer window to left; attic window to left of centre; canted dormer window to right.
W ELEVATION: blank west gable where adjoining building demolished.
N ELEVATION: later extension; pair piended roofs; 4-bay; regular fenestration.
E ELEVATION: adjoining building.
Modern glazing at ground floor; single pane sash and case at 1st floor; 2-pane sash and case in dormers. Grey slated roof; straight stone skews to south; large scroll skewputts to front; crowstepped skew to north. Short harled stack to left; tall rubble stack with cornice to right; tall harled stack to rear.
INTERIOR: not seen 2000.
The fine Gibbsian door surround and scrolled skewputts are very unusual features within Queensferry.
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