List of Category A listed buildings in the New Town, Edinburgh

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This is a list of Category A listed buildings in the New Town of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Contents

For the main list, see List of Category A listed buildings in Edinburgh .

Boundaries

The New Town is defined here as the area shown in light brown on the map to the right, with some small exceptions:

This includes Royal Crescent, Scotland Street and Bellevue Crescent, which are omitted from the map area
All buildings on Randolph Crescent, Ainslie Place, and Moray Place have been included.
This encompasses the Gayfield Square area and all of the structures on Calton Hill, as well as the very southern end of Leith Walk. It does not, however, include the buildings around Montgomery Street to the north of London Road
This includes all structures in Princes Street Gardens and the lower parts of the Mound, with a boundary running approximately along Market Street, and includes Waverley Station as well as the Balmoral Hotel and the old Post Office building at the north end of North Bridge. At the west, it includes St Cuthbert's Church, and at the eastern end includes all buildings on Calton Hill to the north of Regent Road, including the old Royal High School.

Listed buildings

Notes

  1. ↑ Sometimes known as OSGB36, the grid reference (where provided) is based on the British national grid reference system used by the Ordnance Survey.
    • "Guide to National Grid". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 12 December 2007.
    • "Get-a-map". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 17 December 2007.
  2. ↑ Historic Environment Scotland assign a unique alphanumeric identifier to each designated site in Scotland, for listed buildings this always begins with "LB", for example "LB12345".

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