Description

Circa 1775; later alterations at ground. 3-storey and attic 5-bay (4-1) classical tenement with shops built out at ground. Droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings; channelled quoins to left, rusticated quoins to right; eaves cornice. Dentilled cornice at ground; at centre panelled door to upper floors with rectangular plate glass fanlight; flanked by later 19th century canted shopfronts (much altered). 2 earlier 19th century canted piend-roofed dormers to left.

Rubble return elevation to W with rebuilt rendered nepus gable and applied stack.

Rubble rear elevation with projecting gable; Venetian window to W bay; apex stack.

Timber 12-pane sash and case windows. Roof piended to W; grey slates.

INTERIOR: not seen 1995.

Statement of Interest

Sir James Simpson lived for a time at No 52. Adjoins the Assembly Rooms, hence the piended roof. A Group with Nos 30-60 (even 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.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17806740

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