12 Union Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 June 1966. Tenement. 3 related planning applications.
12 Union Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- ragged-remnant-cream
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 June 1966
- Type
- Tenement
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Robert Burn, designed 1800, restored after fire damage circa 1995. 5-bay by 6-bay, 3-storey with basement and attic, terraced classical corner tenement. Sandstone ashlar, rustication to ground at principal elevation. Band course between ground and 1st floors and between 1st and 2nd floors, projecting cills, mutuled eaves cornice and blocking course, entrance platts oversailing basement.
N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 5 bays with round-arched recesses at ground, round-arched entrance with fanlight to centre, windows in remaining bays, regular fenestration above with 4 box dormers.
E (UNION STREET) ELEVATION: 7 bays at ground, recessed bay to left; common stair entrance with tripartite fanlight, remaining bays regularly fenestrated with windows to right blocked for symmetry, regular fenestration to 1st floor above with windows in 3rd and last 3 bays blocked for symmetry, above windows in 3 bays to left, 2 small gablehead windows above.
W (SIDE) ELEVATION: adjoining 27 Forth Street exposed gablehead above with small window set to left.
Timber sash and case windows with predominantly 12-pane glazing, grey slates, gablehead stacks with terracotta cans, decorative cast-iron railings.
INTERIOR: not seen 1998.
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