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72 George Street, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9528 / 55°57'9"N

Longitude: -3.2005 / 3°12'1"W

OS Eastings: 325132

OS Northings: 673955

OS Grid: NT251739

Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.6L

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.TM4W

Plus Code: 9C7RXQ3X+4Q

Entry Name: 72 George Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 72-76 (Even Nos), and 72A George Street and 34 Frederick Street with Railings

Listing Date: 13 January 1966

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 367493

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28874

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200367493

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1775; subsequent alterations. 3-storey basement and attic, 10-bay (4-1-5) former classical tenement on corner site with shop built out at corner ground. Droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Long and short quoins at corner.

GEORGE STREET ELEVATION: common stair door at centre; 5 bays to right with cornices and architraves at ground, tripartite doorpiece at centre with fluted frieze, mutuled cornice and early 20th century mansard roof with 3 large corniced bipartite dormers; 4 left bays with modern shop at ground, plain eaves cornice.

FREDERICK STREET ELEVATION: 5-bay; gable to 4 right bays. Modern shop at ground.

Timber sash and case 12-pane windows. Rendered brick stacks, rebuilt stone mutual stack to W; ashlar coped skews; grey slates.

INTERIOR: not seen 1995.

RAILINGS: cast-iron barley twist railings.

Statement of Interest

No 76 was William Burn?s office for a while. A Group with Nos 78-92 (even nos) George Street, and Nos 20-32 (even 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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