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Latitude: 55.9531 / 55°57'11"N
Longitude: -3.2048 / 3°12'17"W
OS Eastings: 324868
OS Northings: 674001
OS Grid: NT248740
Mapcode National: GBR 8LF.BG
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.RM3L
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ3W+73
Entry Name: 1-5 Young Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 1-5 (Odd Nos) Young Street and 38 Young Street Lane North
Listing Date: 3 March 1966
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 370731
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29999
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200370731
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Tenement
John Young, soon after 1779; ground floor altered as shops. 3-storey and attic, 4-bay tenement on corner site. Coursed rubble sandstone. Common stair door at centre with timber cornice and shop to left. Pair of piend-roofed dormers.
Gable largely rebuilt 1995. Irregular 3-storey 4-bay rear elevation.
Painted 2-storey 3-bay mews building adjoining to rear with infilled carriage arch and garage door flanking entrance.
12-pane timber sash and case windows. Rebuilt ashlar stacks; ashlar coped skews; grey slates.
INTERIOR: not seen 1995. Fine 1st floor rooms with corniced overdoors.
The street was feued to the builder Young in 1779, becoming Young Street in 1806. This block restored 1995; shop door to right blocked as window. A Group with Nos 7 and 13-21 (odd nos) Young 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. Young Street and Hill Street contain the smartest versions of the 2-storey New Town house.
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