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Latitude: 55.9526 / 55°57'9"N
Longitude: -3.2017 / 3°12'6"W
OS Eastings: 325056
OS Northings: 673933
OS Grid: NT250739
Mapcode National: GBR 8LF.YN
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.SNK1
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ3X+28
Entry Name: 86 George Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 86 and 86A George Street
Listing Date: 13 January 1966
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 367497
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28879
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200367497
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Late 18th century, refaced 1832; later 19th century shop fronts. 3-storey and attic, 6-bay offices with shops built out at ground. Polished cream sandstone ashlar; bays closely spaced. Unified corniced front at ground with pair of modernised shops flanking arched doorway to upper floors. 1st floor windows with architraves and cornices. Cornice and blocking course. Pair of later 19th century canted corniced piend-roofed dormers flank similar bipartite dormer.
Coursed rubble rear elevation with full-height bow to E.
Timber sash and case 12-pane windows. Ashlar coped skews; rendered stacks; grey slates.
INTERIOR: E shop (No 86) with top lit saloon to rear; that to W also extends to rear.
A Group with Nos 30-60 (even nos) George Street as a significant surviving part of Edinburgh's New Town, one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain.
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