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127, 129 George Street, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9524 / 55°57'8"N

Longitude: -3.2056 / 3°12'20"W

OS Eastings: 324815

OS Northings: 673919

OS Grid: NT248739

Mapcode National: GBR 8LF.5Q

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.QNQ5

Plus Code: 9C7RXQ2V+XQ

Entry Name: 127, 129 George Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 127 and 129 George Street with Railings and Lamp Standards

Listing Date: 13 January 1966

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 367470

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28857

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 127, 129 George Street

ID on this website: 200367470

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1790; 19th century additions removed and ground floor rebuilt by Robert Hurd and Partners, 1973-4. 3-storey basement and attic, 6-bay classical office. Droved cream ashlar sandstone with polished dressings. Rusticated at ground; round-headed tripartite doorway to inner right bay. 1st floor windows architraved and corniced (consoled above door) with moulded cill course. Cornice and lead covered blocking course. 6 modern canted piend-roofed slate-hung dormers.

Timber sash and case 12-pane windows. Ashlar coped mutual skews, stone stacks. Recessed downpipes to flanks and centre (absent to left); grey slates.

INTERIOR: modern office behind retained facade.

RAILINGS AND LAMP STANDARDS: cast-iron spearhead railings and pair of replacement wrought- and cast-iron lamp standards.

Statement of Interest

Former pair of houses; a full width projecting shopfront with applied Composite order was removed by Robert Hurd, and replaced with the present arrangement. Kirkwood shows a matching pair of houses with tripartite doorways to the inner bays and plain 1st floor windows - the moulded cill course and enrichments presumably date from the time of the shopfront, when these windows must have been enlarged. A Group with Nos 125-141 (odd nos) George 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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