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125 George Street, Edinburgh

A Category A Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9526 / 55°57'9"N

Longitude: -3.2053 / 3°12'19"W

OS Eastings: 324834

OS Northings: 673937

OS Grid: NT248739

Mapcode National: GBR 8LF.7N

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.QNV1

Plus Code: 9C7RXQ3V+2V

Entry Name: 125 George Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 125 George Street with Railings and Lamp Standards

Listing Date: 14 December 1970

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 367469

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28856

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 125 George Street

ID on this website: 200367469

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1785; additions to rear Robert Matheson, 1856, and George Morham, 1898, removed and rebuilt in 1980s. 3-storey, attic and basement, 4-bay former terraced classical house with large modern brick extension to rear. Droved cream ashlar sandstone. Ashlar basement. Ground floor with square cut rustication; to right, steps oversailing basement to arched tripartite doorpiece with decorative semicircular metal fanlight framed by Roman Doric pilasters and cornice. 1st floor with moulded cill course and band course above. Cornice. 3 modern canted piend-roofed dormers.

Timber sash and case 12-pane windows. Ashlar coped mutual skews and stone stacks; grey slates.

INTERIOR: entrance Hall with simple enriched ceiling, former stove niche, decorative corniced overdoor to stairhall (replacement door), set of fine plaster figure panels on walls and slapping to former Dining Room; enriched panelled fanlight arch. Cantilevered stone stair with quarter landings and plain square banisters; upper walls enriched with trophy and musical panels, frieze with festoons and rosettes, and diamond paned frieze to skylight; plaster decoration at 1st floor landing (probably 19th century); corniced shaped overdoors with medallions; swagged frieze to cornice. Former Drawing Room unseen 1995.

Statement of Interest

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 Nos127-141 (odd nos) George Street.

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