New Town Chic @ Northumberland Street

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New Town charm and elegance combined with sleek modern finishes, this one bedroom apartment is a certainly a find!

Located in Edinburgh’s prestigious and central New Town it is in an excellent position from which to explore Edinburgh, being less than 10 mins walk from both Princes street, with its city centre shopping and the delightful Stockbridge Area. Stockbridge being full of great restaurants, cafes, gourmet food shops, boutiques and bars.

Bright and sunny, this is a roomy main door basement apartment. Upon entering you are greeted by a spacious hallway from which all rooms lead off. There is an open plan living room/kitchen with a double sofa bed. There are comfortable sofas, a flat screen TV, and DVD player and a kitchen table to seat 4. The kitchen has an induction hob and all mod cons. The superbly appointed bathroom has soft grey sophisticated tiling, a large drench shower and under floor heating.

An apartment to suit corporate and leisure visitors alike.

A little more about the New Town:
In mid-1700s Edinburgh was a medieval jumble. To address this in 1766 the City of Edinburgh held a competition to develop 100 acres of city-owned land to the North of the Nor' Loch (now Princes Street Gardens) as a residential suburb to be called the New Town.

James Craig, the 21-year-old son of a merchant, won the competition with his plan for a grid system of streets bounded by formal squares. Building commenced on the first phase of the New Town in 1767 and Northumberland Street forms part of the second phase, built in 1807.
Houses in Edinburgh’s New Town were built as a series of individual plots, sold at £2,000, for the wealthy middle class to build their own homes. This resulted in a diversity of buildings within the same street, each with its own individual character but conforming to Craig’s master plan.

The street names in the New Town draw on ‘Britishness’. Streets were named after Royalty, Empire, English counties, national heroes and reaffirmed Edinburgh’s commitment to the Union. Northumberland Street, and neighbouring Cumberland Street, reflects this link with England. The New Town was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1995.

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