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Summary

Description

Circa 1785, remodelled by Thomas Purves Marwick, 1897-8. 4-storey and basement, 3-bay terraced classical house. Droved Craigleith sandstone ashlar, with later cream sandstone dressings. Regular fenestration, moulded architraves. Steps to Ionic columned porch to right; fluted doorpiece, panelled door, plate glass segmental fanlight. Corniced window with shaped apron at 1st floor above. Left bays with later broad flat-roofed canted window to basement, ground and 1st floors; chamfered arrises, cornices. Consoled windows at 2nd floor with cornice above. Later full attic storey with cornice and blocking course. Panelled door to basement with 2 glazed panes and 4-pane fanlight.

Rubble 3-bay rear elevation with full attic storey; direct access to rear from left window at ground. W angle chamfered (No 16 less deep).

Timber sash and case windows; plate glass to front; 12-pane to rear. Grey slates; stack demolished.

INTERIOR: original bracketed cornice in Hall, with later arch to central stairwell; original tight horseshoe stair with alternate decorative cast-iron banisters (anthemion motif). Dining Room with panelled dado, cornice and black slate Roman Doric columned chimneypiece with cream marble inserts, including central tablet bearing Goldsmith?s crest. At 1st floor, full width Drawing Room at front with panelled dado, simple carved 19th century chimneypiece with marble slips and dentilled cornice. 2-bay room to rear left with original cornice. Similar plan at 2nd floor. Basement extended into rear area as large room with cast-iron column supporting original rear wall.

RAILINGS: 19th century wrought-iron railings.

Statement of Special Interest

Built as a pair with No 16 (see spearate listing). Formerly the Goldsmith?s Hall, and presumably altered for them. A Group with 4-16 (inclusive nos) Queen Street as a significant surviving part of the original fabric of Edinburgh?s New Town, one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain; Queen Street was built to take advantage of the northern views, and has survived remarkably unaltered to this day. Garden now car park.

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