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97 Hanover Street, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9545 / 55°57'16"N

Longitude: -3.1974 / 3°11'50"W

OS Eastings: 325331

OS Northings: 674145

OS Grid: NT253741

Mapcode National: GBR 8MD.TZ

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.VLMK

Plus Code: 9C7RXR33+R2

Entry Name: 97 Hanover Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 91-99 (Odd Nos) Hanover Street with Railings

Listing Date: 24 March 1966

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 368083

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29002

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 97 Hanover Street

ID on this website: 200368083

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

1784-90; later alterations at ground; restored and converted by Michael Laird & Partners, 1976. 3-storey basement and attic, 10-bay classical tenement with shops at ground on corner site. Droved cream ashlar sandstone with polished dressings (stonecleaned). Long and short quoins to corner; eaves cornice. 4 right bays with neo-Georgian reinstatement at ground with corniced door to left, and 3 large piend-roofed canted dormers; broad central common stair bay with Roman Doric columned porch with full entablature; 5 left bays with pair of projecting corniced commercial premises, modernised to right; 2 further canted dormers.

Coursed rubble gable with windows at centre

Timber sash and case 12-pane windows. Ashlar coped skews; stone stacks; grey slates.

INTERIOR: fine late 19th century bar interior to No 99. Offices refurbished, some chimneypieces survive, as does common stair with all fittings; small top-lit saloon to rear.

RAILINGS: cast-iron reinstated railings to S.

Statement of Interest

A Group with Nos 101-123 Hanover 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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