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Latitude: 55.9519 / 55°57'6"N
Longitude: -3.2003 / 3°12'1"W
OS Eastings: 325144
OS Northings: 673861
OS Grid: NT251738
Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.7W
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.TN7J
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ2X+QV
Entry Name: 12, 14, 16 Frederick Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 12-16 (Even Nos) Frederick Street
Listing Date: 24 March 1966
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 367349
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28789
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 12, 14, 16 Frederick Street
ID on this website: 200367349
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
1786-92. 3-storey and attics, 9-bay double bow fronted former pair of classical houses with flats above. Ground and 1st floor built out as shops. Polished cream sandstone ashlar. 3 central bays flanked by bows. Projecting shops divided between 4 S and 5 N bays, that to N slightly advanced, with entrance to common stair; modern at ground, original pilastraded 1st floor. Flanking pair of broad early 19th century bow dormers with tripartite windows, and further dormer to centre right; sundry skylights.
Plate glass at ground; at 1st floor, lattice metal glazing to No 16, plate glass casements to No 12; timber sash and case to upper floors, plate glass to S, 12-pane to N; multi-pane to dormers. Ashlar coped skews; rebuilt corniced dressed stone stack to S; rendered to N; grey slates; moulded hoppers.
INTERIORS: shops extended to rear at ground and 1st floors and thoroughly converted to retail use. Upper flats subdivided.
Kirkwood shows rustication at ground and pilastraded arched doorways. A Group with Nos 6-18 (even 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.
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