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Latitude: 55.94 / 55°56'24"N
Longitude: -3.1806 / 3°10'50"W
OS Eastings: 326351
OS Northings: 672514
OS Grid: NT263725
Mapcode National: GBR 8RL.75
Mapcode Global: WH6SM.3YPP
Plus Code: 9C7RWRR9+2Q
Entry Name: 56 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: Clerk Street South, 44-74
Listing Date: 29 April 1977
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 366669
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28556
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200366669
Circa 1869. 4-storey ashlar astylar tenement block with
ground floor shops continuous in treatment with above,
5 canted bays at 2 and 3-window intervals on continuous
podium of advanced ground floor shops with dentilled
cornices, S section of facade canted out to shop frontage
to unify with earlier tenements adjoining, architraved
windows with cornices at 1st floor.
Between these blocks is the former Southern Literary
Institute by Robert Paterson 1870, tall 2-storey astylar
Italian with alternating pediment and the first floor
windows and urns at the parapet, in its present state
now too spoiled by loss of the original ground floor to
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