37, 38 South Bridge, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 April 1977. Row of tenements. 1 related planning application.
37, 38 South Bridge, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-corbel-sedge
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1977
- Type
- Row of tenements
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Possibly Robert Kay (see Notes), circa 1790. 3-storey and attic row of Classical tenements comprising 6 x 6-bay sections with shops to ground. Situated on steeply sloping site with further 3 basement storeys to Cowgate (N) and Niddry Street (E). Ashlar with coursed rubble to rear. Pedimented gables with lunettes to Infirmary Street and Cowgate. Band course, raised cills, cornice. Some round-arched openings to ground with 6-panel timber entrance doors and multi-pane glazed fanlights above.
Several shopfronts with timber fascias, fluted timber pilasters, decorative timber consoles and timber panelled stallrisers. Later dormers, box dormers, mansard and attic storeys. Raised architraves with consoled cornice to windows to N.
Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Coped gable, wallhead and ridge stacks. Grey slates.
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