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Latitude: 55.9519 / 55°57'6"N
Longitude: -3.2046 / 3°12'16"W
OS Eastings: 324877
OS Northings: 673865
OS Grid: NT248738
Mapcode National: GBR 8LF.CW
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.RN6K
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ2W+Q5
Entry Name: 118 George Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 118 George Street with Railings
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 367504
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28884
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 118 George Street
ID on this website: 200367504
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Terrace house
Circa 1785; subsequent alterations. 3-storey and basement, 3-bay classical facade of former house. Polished cream sandstone ashlar (stonecleaned). Channelled rustication at ground; tripartite doorpiece (much restored - now closed) with fluted stylised Corinthian pilasters and fluted frieze. 1st floor cill course with long and short rusticated quoins above; 1st floor windows architraved and corniced; mutuled eaves cornice and lead covered blocking course.
Timber sash and case windows; 12-pane, 15-pane at 1st floor. Ashlar coped skews; rebuilt stone stacks; grey slates.
INTERIOR: fine geometric stair survived general rebuilding as part of development of No 120 George Street (see separate listing).
RAILINGS: modern cast-iron spearhead railings and lamp standard.
Formerly had a shop built out to the 2 left bays at ground, and the doorway had been divided in two; also a mansard roof. Restored in 1984 by Robert Hurd & Partners as part of the modern building grafted onto the facade of the Tontine building for the TSB (see No 120 George Street). A Group with Nos 112-128 (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.
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