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21-27 Hanover Street, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9527 / 55°57'9"N

Longitude: -3.1965 / 3°11'47"W

OS Eastings: 325386

OS Northings: 673939

OS Grid: NT253739

Mapcode National: GBR 8NF.0M

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.WM1Z

Plus Code: 9C7RXR33+3C

Entry Name: 21-27 Hanover Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 21-27 (Odd Nos) Hanover Street

Listing Date: 28 March 1996

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 389734

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43293

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200389734

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

1784-90; subsequent alterations at ground. 3-storey and attic 5-bay former classical tenement with 2 modern shops at ground. Droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Broader bay to right with arched and keystoned doorpiece (modern door) to common stair. Eaves cornice; 2 piend-roofed mid 19th century dormers, that to right larger and tripartite.

Timber sash and case plate glass windows (1 12-pane survives). Grey slates.

INTERIOR: modern shops; flats unseen 1995.

Statement of Interest

Inverleith House has 2 carved and gesso chimneypieces taken from No 21 Hanover Street. A carved stone above the common stair door records that this building contained the workshop of Alexander Bain, inventor of the electric clock and telegraph. 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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