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50, 52 Thistle Street, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9539 / 55°57'14"N

Longitude: -3.1993 / 3°11'57"W

OS Eastings: 325213

OS Northings: 674079

OS Grid: NT252740

Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.G5

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.TMQ1

Plus Code: 9C7RXR32+H7

Entry Name: 50, 52 Thistle Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 50-52 (Even Nos) Thistle Street

Listing Date: 13 January 1966

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 389827

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43363

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200389827

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Late 18th century. 3-storey and attic, 3-bay tenement with shop at ground. Coursed cream sandstone. 3-bay shop at ground with door at centre and corniced fascia; doorway to common stair to far left with deep-set flush-panelled door and 3-pane fanlight. Pair of tripartite piend-roofed slate hung dormers.

Warehousing to rear (Lyon & Turnbull) - see separate listing,

54 Thistle Street.

Timber sash and case 12-pane windows. Ashlar coped skews; rendered stack to E; grey slates.

INTERIOR: not seen 1995.

Statement of Interest

A Group with Nos 26-66 (even nos) Thistle 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. Thistle Street was built as plainer artisan dwellings and workshops and has survived with few significant alterations.

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