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

6, 7, 8, 9 and Annfield House, Hope Park Square, Edinburgh LB29097

Status: Designated

Documents

There are no additional online documents for this record.

Summary

Category
B
Date Added
29/04/1977
Last Date Amended
17/07/2015
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 26034 72756
Coordinates
326034, 672756

Description

Circa 1860-64 tenement and house (forming east side of Hope Park Square). Annfield House has 3-storey 3-window (right-hand bipartite) front to North Meadow Walk, quoin ends, architraved and corniced ground floor windows, Roman Doric pilastered doorpiece, later mansard attic: 1-window gable to square, continuous treatment with nos 6-9 which in turn are similar to nos 1-5. 3 storey, 1-window front to Square at nos 6, 7 and 9, 2-window at no 8 with plain architraved and corniced doorpiece, all stugged ashlar with slated roofs. Irregular rubble-built frontage to Meadow Lane with forestairs.

Statement of Special Interest

The tenements adjoin the eastern side of 6 Hope Park Square (originally Hope House), an 18th century villa built by Sir Thomas Hope of Rankeillor. Sir Thomas Hope of Rankeillor laid out a park area on the neighbouring Meadows (originally Hope Park) from 1722 on the site of the drained Borough Loch.

(6, 7, 8 and 9) Hope Park Square and Annfield House are visible on Bartholomew's 1865 plan of Edinburgh and Leith.

The majority of Hope Park Square appears to have been remodelled as small tenements circa 1860. An advertisement in The Scotsman newspaper of 1860 notes two dwelling houses for sale at nos 1 and 2 Hope Park Square each containing three flats. The Ordnance Survey map of 1876 shows the addition of forestrairs to the north side of the square at Meadow Lane.

Listed building record and statutory address updated (2015). Previously listed as '6-9 Hope Park Square and Annfield House'

References

Bibliography

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland: http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/canmore.html CANMORE ID 128006

Kincaid, A. (1787) The History of Edinburgh, from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, Edinburgh: N. R. Cheyne.

Hope Park Square, The Scotsman, 23 January 1860, p.1.

Bartholomew, J. (1865) Hislop's new plan of Edinburgh & Leith with suburbs ... constructed for the Post Office Directory, Edinburgh: Bartholomew.

Ordnance Survey (Surveyed 1877, published 1878-81) Large scale Scottish town plans, Town Plan of Edinburgh (south east part). London: Ordnance Survey.

Gifford, J. McWilliam, C. and Walker, D. (1988) The Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh. London: Penguin Books, p. 250.

McKean, C. (1992) Edinburgh; An Illustrated Architectural Guide, Edinburgh; RIAS. p 64.

About Listed Buildings

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

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Images

Northeast elevation, Meadow Lane, 6, 7, 8, 9 and Annfield House, Hope Park Square, Edinburgh, shrubs and tree branches in foreround.
South elevation, 6, 7, 8, 9 and Annfield House, Hope Park Square, Edinburgh, tree in foreground.

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