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Latitude: 55.9532 / 55°57'11"N
Longitude: -3.203 / 3°12'10"W
OS Eastings: 324977
OS Northings: 674010
OS Grid: NT249740
Mapcode National: GBR 8LF.PF
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.RMYJ
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ3W+7Q
Entry Name: 24 Hill Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 24 Hill Street
Listing Date: 3 March 1966
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 389752
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43305
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200389752
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Terrace house
James Hill, 1788-94. 3-storey and attic, 3-bay classical former house on corner site with ground falling to N (front). Droved cream ashlar sandstone (painted black) with polished dressings. Smaller windows at ground with cill course at ground; eaves course. Roman Doric pilastered and corniced tripartite doorpiece to left bay (panelled door). Pair of fine slate-hung piend-roofed bowed dormers.
Broad coursed rubble 2-bay gable with 3 windows and door at ground, blank at 1st floor. Irregular rubble 2-storey and attic rear elevation with projecting porch/closet at ground to right.
Timber sash and case 12-pane windows (20-pane to dormers). Ashlar coped skews; stone stacks, rebuilt to W, rendered to E; grey slates.
INTERIOR: full-width former Drawing room at 1st floor with recess and plaster panelled walls.
James Hill was a mason who built the street with finance from Robert Belshes of Greenyeards. 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.
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