Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

9, 10, 11 QUEENSFERRY STREETLB30150

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
12/12/1974
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 24570 73717
Coordinates
324570, 673717

Description

James Gillespie Graham, 1823. 4-storey, 7-bay classical tenement with later timber and plate glass shop premises at ground floor. Mid 19th century corniced and consoled detailing added to original architraved window openings. Painted sandstone ashlar. Banded cill course at 2nd and 3rd floors; corniced eaves course. Architraved 1st floor surrounds; consoled dentilled cornices. Architraved 2nd and 3rd storey windows with bracketed cills and cornices. Later (mid 19th century) dormers at attic.

Plate glass to ground floor shop fronts; predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case at 1st floor; 4-pane in timber sash and case windows at 2nd and 3rd floors. Corniced ashlar gable end and ridge stacks. Cast iron rainwater goods.

Statement of Special Interest

This block was designed by James Gillespie Graham as part of his scheme for the Erskine Estate, which included nearby Alva Street (see separate listings). The tall block dominates the streetscape and the elaborate detailing show a different approach to the plain pared back approach employed by Tait a decade before. The block was refurbished in the mid 19th century with the addition of good detailing and dormer windows at attic level. The block is marked on the 1852 OS survey as 'Dr Thomson's School'.

James Gillespie Graham was best known for designing country houses and churches, most notably Blythswood Castle. The strong neo-classical features of Blythswood are a recurrent theme in his urban designs for Edinburgh. His work on the Erskine and Walker estates is a good example of the lively compositions that were a feature of his approach to classical planning and design.

(List description revised 2009 as part of re-survey.)

References

Bibliography

Ordnance Survey, Large Scale Town Plan, (1849-53); John Wood, Plan of the City of Edinburgh, including all the latest and intended improvements (1823); J Gifford, C McWilliam, D M Walker, The Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh (1988) p. 377.

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)

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