8 South Fort Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1994. Terraced houses.
8 South Fort Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- grim-panel-ivory
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1994
- Type
- Terraced houses
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Circa 1815. Mirrored pair of 2-storey, basement and attic 3-bay classical terraced houses. Cream ashlar sandstone with polished dressings; rock-faced at basement; polished ashlar rustication at ground; droved to 1st floor. Base course and band course at ground; cill course to 1st floor; cornice and blocking course. Regular fenestration; fluted aprons to 1st floor windows. Steps to panelled deep-set doors to inner bays; rectangular fanlights (fan glazing to
No 10). Dormers; piended to No 10 (one canted); flat-roofed to No 8
(1 tripartite, 1 bipartite).
3-bay basements with doors at centre.
Plate glass timber sash and case glazing. Grey slates; ashlar coped stacks.
Lobbies with decorative glazed tripartite vestibule screens; No 8 with Roman Doric frieze; No 10 with Adamesque reliefs.
STEPS AND RAILINGS: ashlar steps and saddleback base for cast-iron spearhead railings.
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