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30, 30A George Street, Edinburgh

A Category A Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9533 / 55°57'11"N

Longitude: -3.1975 / 3°11'50"W

OS Eastings: 325325

OS Northings: 674013

OS Grid: NT253740

Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.TD

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.VMLG

Plus Code: 9C7RXR33+82

Entry Name: 30, 30A George Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 30, 30A and 32 George Street and 54 and 56 Hanover Street

Listing Date: 13 January 1966

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 367480

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28866

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 30, 30a George Street

ID on this website: 200367480

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Shop Tenement

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Description

Circa 1775; alterations by David Bryce, 1860; later shops. 3-storey and basement 6-bay classical corner tenement with part built out as shops at ground. Droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Long and short quoins at corner; later timber architraves to 1st floor windows.

GEORGE STREET ELEVATION: 6-bay; centre 2 bays with nepus gable; centre right bay with blind windows; pair of fine bowed slate-hung dormers with bipartite windows. 2 modern shops at ground with polished ashlar fascias and plate glass windows.

HANOVER STREET: 3-bay gable with corniced and architraved door to common stair to left and projecting modern shop to right; interesting shop has five marble clad angled fins each with copper figure, with contrastingly angled glass between. 2-bay wing to left with applied earlier 19th century corniced ashlar facing at ground floor, and open steps to basement shop.

Timber sash and case windows; plate glass, with 12-pane to common stair and attic. Ashlar coped skews and parapet to Hanover St; ashlar apex stacks; grey slates.

INTERIOR: not seen 1995.

Statement of Interest

The only surviving nepus gable on George Street. This is particularly fine 1960s shop, incorporating original artwork. Listed at Category A 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. A Group with Nos 34-60 (even nos) George Street.

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