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Latitude: 55.953 / 55°57'10"N
Longitude: -3.1991 / 3°11'56"W
OS Eastings: 325219
OS Northings: 673975
OS Grid: NT252739
Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.GJ
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.TMSR
Plus Code: 9C7RXR32+58
Entry Name: 56, 58 George Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 56 and 58 George Street with Railings
Listing Date: 13 January 1966
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 367488
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28870
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 56, 58 George Street
ID on this website: 200367488
Circa 1775; earlier 19th shop at ground. 3-storey and basement, 4-bay classical tenement with shop at ground. Droved cream sandstone ashlar (stonecleaned) with polished dressings; rusticated quoins. Common stair door to left; 3-bay shopfront to right with splayed steps to corniced door and windows advanced and architraved. Decorative cast-iron balconies at 2nd floor. Piend-roofed earlier 19th century canted dormer to right.
Projecting rubble gable to rear.
Timber sash and case 12-pane windows. Roof piended to E; large stone stack to E; grey slates.
INTERIOR: divided former 1st floor Drawing Room with original enriched plaster ceiling.
PIERS AND RAILINGS: early 20th century cast-iron railings to front and steps; ashlar piers.
No 60 is of the same build. The piended roof is in deference to the Assembly Rooms. 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 30-60 (even nos) George Street. No 58 was formerly the shop and office of the decorators Thomas Bonnar and Son.
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