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Latitude: 55.9524 / 55°57'8"N
Longitude: -3.2005 / 3°12'1"W
OS Eastings: 325132
OS Northings: 673915
OS Grid: NT251739
Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.6Q
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.TN45
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ2X+XQ
Entry Name: 24 Frederick Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 24-28 (Even Nos) and 24A Frederick Street
Listing Date: 24 March 1966
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 367352
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28792
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 24 Frederick Street
ID on this website: 200367352
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
1786-92. 3-storey and attic, 9-bay classical former tenement. Droved cream sandstone ashlar. Ground floor built out as shops; extra storey with further attic to 4 N bays (with flagpole). Common stair at centre. Mutuled eaves cornice. Corniced tripartite box dormer above common stair; 2 piend-roofed dormers to left (1 bipartite); pair of bipartite box dormers to N.
Timber sash and case windows; 12-pane to S (lower plate glass sash at 1st floor), plate glass to N. Ashlar coped skews; stack removed to S; rendered stacks at centre; corniced stone stacks to N; grey slates.
INTERIOR: shops modernised. Modern access to tenement stair; many alterations to incorporate lift and offices.
Main door flats formerly with door to centre inner bay. A Group with Nos 20-32 (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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