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Latitude: 55.9518 / 55°57'6"N
Longitude: -3.2057 / 3°12'20"W
OS Eastings: 324805
OS Northings: 673851
OS Grid: NT248738
Mapcode National: GBR 8LF.4Y
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.QNNN
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ2V+PP
Entry Name: 134, 136, 138 George Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 134-138 (Even Nos) George Street, Roxburghe Hotel, with Railings (Formerly 134-142)
Listing Date: 13 January 1966
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 367508
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28887
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 134, 136, 138 George Street
ID on this website: 200367508
Circa 1785; subsequent alterations; shopfront Henry & Maclennan, 1928; mansard slightly later. 3-storey basement and attic, 7-bay former classical tenement. Droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Set back common stair bay at centre with corniced and architraved 9-panel door (and surviving channelled rustication). Ground floor altered to either side; pilastered 4-bay ashlar front built out to E with door to right and dentilled cornice; to W, channelled pilastered 4-bay front with applied doorway to left, and cornice, parapet and urn to slightly projecting 3 right bays (area survives). Eaves cornice. Later mansard attic with gabled dormers with segmental-headed windows to each bay. 2 flagpoles (3 fixings) above E projection.
Timber sash and case plate glass windows (12-pane survive to E bays at 2nd floor); grey slates.
INTERIOR: converted to hotel use.
RAILINGS: cast-iron spearhead railings to steps and area.
Now incorporated into the Roxburghe Hotel (see separate listing,
Nos 33-39 Charlotte Square). A Group with Nos 33-39 Charlotte Square 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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