Description

1786-92; later alterations. 3-storey and attic, 10-bay classical tenement with shops projecting at ground. Droved cream ashlar sandstone (5 S bays cleaned). 5 S bays with modern plate glass shopfront with polished ashlar facing; incorporating modern door to common stair at left. Pair of 19th century shopfronts to N framed by panelled pilasters; that to left with arched openings, that to right modernised. Pair of canted corniced piend-roofed dormers to N;

3 varied piend-roofed dormers to S.

Timber sash and case windows; plate glass to N, 12-pane to S.

Ashlar coped skews; stone stacks, that at centre left rebuilt in glazed brick; grey slates.

INTERIOR: shops all modernised. Flats/offices above unseen 1995.

Statement of Interest

A Group with Nos 21-25 (odd nos) Frederick 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.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17806150

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Recommended Books

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)