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18 And 18A Frederick Street, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9521 / 55°57'7"N

Longitude: -3.2003 / 3°12'0"W

OS Eastings: 325147

OS Northings: 673883

OS Grid: NT251738

Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.7T

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.TN7D

Plus Code: 9C7RXQ2X+VV

Entry Name: 18 And 18A Frederick Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 18 and 18A Frederick Street and 106 Rose Street

Listing Date: 24 March 1966

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 367350

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28790

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 18 And 18a Frederick Street

ID on this website: 200367350

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

1786-92. 3-storey and attic, 3-bay classical tenement with shops at ground on corner site. Droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished long and short quoins. Ground floor built out as 2 shops, incorporating half-raised basement; at centre panelled door to upper floors with consoled segmental pediment and festoon in frieze, above large plate glass fanlight, built en suite with shop to left; modern glazed canopy, canted at corner, to right shop. Moulded cill course at 1st floor, banded cill course at 2nd floor; eaves cornice. Pair of later 19th century canted piend-roofed dormers.

Rubble gable with 3 bays to right; shop at ground to right.

12-pane timber sash and case windows (1 with plate glass at 1st floor). Ashlar coped skews; rendered stack to S, stone to N; grey slates.

INTERIOR: converted to retail use at ground. Cavetto moulded original doorway survives in situ; straight corridor to common stair at rear; flat to each floor.

Statement of Interest

Kirkwood shows rustication at ground, with door to right. A Group with Nos 12-16 (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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