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47, 49, 49A North Castle Street, 45, 45A, Edinburgh

A Category A Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9531 / 55°57'11"N

Longitude: -3.2034 / 3°12'12"W

OS Eastings: 324953

OS Northings: 673996

OS Grid: NT249739

Mapcode National: GBR 8LF.MG

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.RMRM

Plus Code: 9C7RXQ3W+6J

Entry Name: 47, 49, 49A North Castle Street, 45, 45A, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 45, 45A, 47, 49 and 49A North Castle Street with Railings

Listing Date: 3 March 1966

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 366408

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28465

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 45, 45a, 47, 49, 49a North Castle Street

ID on this website: 200366408

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1795; subsequent alterations. 3-storey basement and later mansard, 9-bay former pair of classical houses with flats above; later 19th century shop created at ground of No 45. Cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Droved at basement and 2nd floor; V-jointed rustication at ground; polished at 1st floor with band course above; eaves cornice; long and short quoins. Outer bays united as pair of bows; doors to central 3 bays (right bay slightly broader); that to left arched and recessed with radiating fanlight; plate glass rectangular fanlight at centre; rendered shopfront to right with panelled piers and entablature, incorporating bow and pair of doors (to shop and 1st floor) with rectangular plate glass fanlights. 4 balancing corniced tripartite and bipartite dormers to early 20th century mansard.

Timber sash and case windows; mostly plate glass but some 12-pane; single sheets to shop windows. Ashlar coped skews; rendered stacks; central ashlar stack face-on to street (probably later); grey slates.

Largely blank rubble gable with windows at centre.

INTERIOR: No 49 with enriched ceiling to Hall, later glazed screen; curving cantilevered top lit stair with square iron banisters, continues to 2nd floor, and again to attic (boxed in). Former Dining Room with sideboard recess, panelled pilasters to window. At 2nd floor front room with sideboard recess, panelled dado. No 49 not seen 1995.

Statement of Interest

Part of the original fabric of Edinburgh?s New Town, one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain. A matching pair to Nos 51-55 Castle Street (see separate listing). Later beams suggest some structural difficulties.

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