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7 Hanover Street, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9525 / 55°57'8"N

Longitude: -3.1965 / 3°11'47"W

OS Eastings: 325385

OS Northings: 673918

OS Grid: NT253739

Mapcode National: GBR 8NF.0P

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.WN13

Plus Code: 9C7RXR23+XC

Entry Name: 7 Hanover Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 3-9 (Odd Nos) Hanover Street

Listing Date: 28 March 1996

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 389731

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43291

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200389731

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

1784-90; subsequent alterations and additions. Former pair of 2-storey and attic 3-bay classical houses. Droved cream sandstone; timber architraves. Modern shops built out at ground (earlier shop cornice survives to S). 3 right bays with lugged architraves to upper floors, circa 1900, corniced with keystones at 1st floor. 3 left bays with single large canted window at 1st floor; architraves at 2nd. 2 early 19th century bowed slate-hung dormers, to outer bays.

Timber sash and case and casement windows; variety of glazing. Stone mutual stacks; grey slates.

INTERIOR: shops completely modernised.

Statement of Interest

This may be the tenement built with shops at ground by Robert Brown, before 1788; Kirkwood certainly shows a pair of 3-bay shopfronts. There is a distinct break in the build between the two houses. A Group with Nos 70-77 (inclusive nos) Princes 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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