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Latitude: 55.9534 / 55°57'12"N
Longitude: -3.2036 / 3°12'12"W
OS Eastings: 324941
OS Northings: 674024
OS Grid: NT249740
Mapcode National: GBR 8LF.KC
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.RMNF
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ3W+8H
Entry Name: 51, 53, 55 North Castle Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 51-55 (Odd Nos) North Castle Street with Railings and Boundary Walls to Rear
Listing Date: 3 March 1966
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 366409
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28466
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200366409
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
After 1792-4. 3-storey basement and attic, 9-bay former pair of classical houses with flats above. Cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Droved at basement and 2nd floor; V-jointed rustication at ground; polished at 1st floor with band course above; eaves cornice; long and short quoins to S. Outer bays united as pair of bows; doors to central 3 bays (right bay slightly broader); 6-pane rectangular fanlight at centre; those flanking arched with radiating fanlights, that to right recessed. Pair of piend-roofed bipartite dormers, and further garret dormer and skylights.
Largely blank rubble gable with windows at centre.
4-storey 4-bay rubble rear elevation.
Timber sash and case windows; mostly 12-pane but some plate glass. Ashlar coped skews; rendered stack to S, stone mutual stack to N; grey slates.
INTERIOR: No 55 largely refurbished 1995; not seen.
A matching pair to Nos 45-49 Castle Street (see separate listing). Part of the original fabric of Edinburgh?s New Town, one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain.
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