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Latitude: 55.9537 / 55°57'13"N
Longitude: -3.1995 / 3°11'58"W
OS Eastings: 325196
OS Northings: 674052
OS Grid: NT251740
Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.D8
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.TML6
Plus Code: 9C7RXR32+F5
Entry Name: 39 South West Thistle Street Lane, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 57-61 (Odd Nos) George Street and 39-41A South West Thistle Street Lane
Listing Date: 13 January 1966
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 367447
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28840
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 39 South West Thistle Street Lane
ID on this website: 200367447
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Warehouse
Circa 1775; subsequent additions and alterations. 3-storey and attic irregular 8-bay classical tenement with shops built out at ground. Droved cream sandstone ashlar (painted and rendered to W) with polished dressings. Channelled quoin strips at ends and centre. Modern corniced 3-bay shopfront to E, central door framed by slender columns with book capitals (Simpson and Brown, 1993) and fine earlier clock; common stair door (No 59) to centre right bay, with architrave and cornice; 2 matching later 19th century shops to W with mutuled cornice. Variety of 4 early bowed and later canted slate-hung piend-roofed dormers.
2 warehouses to lane; 4-storey 4-bay coursed rubble to E, and 4-storey 7-bay coursed rubble to W, with droved ashlar at ground, and later garage.
Timber sash and case windows; plate glass and 6-pane to E, 12-pane to W. Ashlar coped skew to W with rendered stack, lead coped with stack removed to E; stone stacks at centre; grey slates.
INTERIOR: No 57 extends to W at rear ground and across whole of 1st floor; consoled cornices at 1st floor (perhaps by Burn); top-lit saloon to rear. Shop at No 61 with earlier Ionic columns.
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. A Group with Nos 33-63 (odd nos) George Street.
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