Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

2-6 (Inclusive Numbers) Gillespie Street, Including Boundary Walls, EdinburghLB28901

Status: Designated

Documents

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
14/12/1970
Last Date Amended
17/07/2015
Supplementary Information Updated
23/01/1998
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 24691 72672
Coordinates
324691, 672672

Description

1820-25. Terrace of 2-storey and attic (excluding No 6), 2-bay rectangular-plan plain symmetrical classical houses. Coursed sandstone; painted architraves and corniced doorpieces. Long and short surrounds to windows; strip quoins to No 6.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: Nos 2, 4 and 5 with doorpieces and timber doors to right at ground, Nos 3 and 6 with doorpieces and recessed timber doors to left at ground; single windows to flanking bays; regular fenestration to upper floor; small box dormers to Nos 2 and 3; piended canted dormer to No 4; piended dormer to No 5.

2-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof; stone skews. Coped, rendered stacks with corniced cans; small corniced stack with single octagonal can between Nos 5 and 6. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

BOUNDARY WALLS: continuous coped, coursed sandstone boundary wall with breaks at pedestrian entrances.

Statement of Special Interest

Land at Lochrin to the southwest of the city was feued from the Trades Maiden Hospital in 1800 by Samuel Gilmour who laid out Gilmore Place (originally Gilmour Place). The estate was auctioned off by the Gilmour Trust estate in 1807, following which feus were developed independently (without an overall scheme). The terrace first appears on Kirkwood's Plan of the city of Edinburgh 1817.

No 6 has recently been stonecleaned.

Listed building record and statutory address updated (2015). Previously listed as '2-6 (inclusive nos) Gillespie Street, including boundary walls'.

References

Bibliography

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland: http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/canmore.html CANMORE ID 237315

Ainslie, J. (1804) Old and New Town of Edinburgh and Leith with the proposed docks. Edinburgh: J. Ainslie.

Kirkwood, R. (1817) This plan of the city of Edinburgh. Edinburgh: R. Kirkwood and Son.

Gifford, J. McWilliam, C. and Walker, D. (1991) The Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh. London: Penguin Books, p. 503.

Rodger, R. (2004) The Transformation of Edinburgh: Land, Property and Trust in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. p.149.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

While Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating listed buildings, the planning authority is responsible for determining what is covered by the listing, including what is listed through curtilage. However, for listed buildings designated or for listings amended from 1 October 2015, legal exclusions to the listing may apply.

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Images

West elevation, 2-6 (Inclusive Numbers) Gillespie Street, Including Boundary Walls, Edinburgh, taken on clear day.
West elevation, 2-6 (Inclusive Numbers) Gillespie Street, Including Boundary Walls, Edinburgh

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