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Latitude: 55.954 / 55°57'14"N
Longitude: -3.2008 / 3°12'2"W
OS Eastings: 325120
OS Northings: 674097
OS Grid: NT251740
Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.44
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.TL0X
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ3X+JM
Entry Name: 57 Frederick Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 57-61 (Odd Nos) Frederick Street with Railings
Listing Date: 24 March 1966
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 367346
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28787
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200367346
1786-92; later alterations at ground. 3-storey basement and attic, 7-bay classical tenement with shops at ground. Droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings; long and short quoins; eaves cornice. Steps to tenement door with 4-pane fanlight at centre; projecting modern shopfront to right with polished granite facing (incorporating door to basement restaurant); mid 19th century corniced shopfront to left with 2 large windows to left and deep-set double doorway to right with pilastered door to ground floor and subsidiary door to 1st floor; separate basement bar. 2 19th century piend-roofed timber dormers; tripartite to S, canted to N.
Timber sash and case windows; 12-pane to common stair and 1st floor right, otherwise plate glass. Ashlar coped skews; rendered stacks (brick to S).
INTERIOR: not seen 1995.
RAILINGS: cast-iron railings to stairs.
A Group with Nos 51-55 (odd nos) Frederick 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.
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