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Latitude: 55.9457 / 55°56'44"N
Longitude: -3.2098 / 3°12'35"W
OS Eastings: 324540
OS Northings: 673175
OS Grid: NT245731
Mapcode National: GBR 8KJ.B4
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.NTQB
Plus Code: 9C7RWQWR+73
Entry Name: 85-89 Morrison Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 85-89 (Odd Nos) Morrison Street
Listing Date: 30 January 1987
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 369168
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29373
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200369168
Earlier 19th century. 4-storey with attic, 4-bay rectangular-plan tenement block. Polished sandstone ashlar to ground floor; droved sandstone ashlar with polished dressings to upper floors. Dividing band course between ground and 1st floors; projecting cornice between 2nd and 3rd floors; moulded cornice below roofline; shouldered and corniced blocking course breaking wallhead at centre; blind windows to upper floors in second bay from left.
N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central common stair entrance to ground; recessed panelled timber door; fanlight. Late Victorian shopfront with fluted pilasters to left; consoled, dentilled cornice. 2 single windows to right of centre at ground of differing sizes; regular fenestration to upper floors; blind windows to penultimate bay to left; 2 dormer windows break roof to outer left and right.
12-pane timber sash and case windows to upper floors. Grey slate piended roof. Coped stack with corniced cans at E.
A Group with 91-107 Morrison Street and 1-25A Gardner's Crescent and 109-15 Morrison Street.
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