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47 Hanover Street, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9531 / 55°57'11"N

Longitude: -3.1967 / 3°11'47"W

OS Eastings: 325374

OS Northings: 673983

OS Grid: NT253739

Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.ZH

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.VMYN

Plus Code: 9C7RXR33+68

Entry Name: 47 Hanover Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 45-49 (Odd Nos) Hanover Street

Listing Date: 28 March 1996

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 389735

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43294

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200389735

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

1784-90; remodelled by David Cousin, 1868. 3-storey and mansard attic 6-bay offices with projecting shops at ground. Droved cream ashlar sandstone with later polished dressings. At ground, 5 irregular bays with pilasters, mutuled cornice and pierced balustrade; 3 plate glass shopfronts inserted with own access, that to right flanked by pair of deeply chamfered round-arched doorpieces with wrought-iron screens at head. 1st and 2nd floor windows with later bracketed architraves, corniced at 1st floor; cornice and parapet containing 6 segmental-headed wallhead dormers with acroteria; all architraves with incised decoration.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Ashlar coped skews; rendered stacks; grey slates.

INTERIOR: not seen 1995.

Statement of Interest

A Group with Nos 35-43 (odd nos) Hanover 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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