Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

3 AND 4 CASTLE TERRACE, INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGSLB28481

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
14/12/1970
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 24792 73502
Coordinates
324792, 673502

Description

Circa 1831. 3-storey, attic and basement 6-bay classical quadrant tenement block (modern shop built out over basement area to No 3). Cream ashlar, channelled at ground. Dividing bands between basement and ground and between ground and 1st floors; moulded eaves cornice. Cill course and moulded and corniced architraves to 1st floor windows; moulded surrounds to 2nd. Stone steps and platts over-arching basement area; timber panelled doors with plate glass fanlights in 1st and 4th bays from left. Slate-hung dormers with tripartite windows to attic.

8-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Corniced stacks with circular cans.

BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS: spear-headed cast-iron railings on low ashlar boundary wall.

Statement of Special Interest

Built on the glebe of St Cuthbert's Church. William Burn produced a feuing plan for the Grindlay Estate in 1825, taking in the glebe. The plan of this area more or less as built appears on Wood's 1820 map of Edinburgh. Thomas Hamilton produced elevations for Castle Terrace in 1825, Burn in 1826. The original design may have been intended to mirror the pavilion at Nos 1 and 2 Castle Terrace, with the quadrant block of Nos 3 and 4 continued as a straight block between. However Bryce's St Mark's Unitarian Church, built in 1834, intervened. The roadway, altered to take account of the new Western Approach, was laid in 1831.

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Bibliography

Appears on Kay's 1836 plan of Edinburgh. Gifford, McWilliam and Walker EDINBURGH (1984) p 263.

About Listed Buildings

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