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Latitude: 55.9549 / 55°57'17"N
Longitude: -3.1976 / 3°11'51"W
OS Eastings: 325317
OS Northings: 674186
OS Grid: NT253741
Mapcode National: GBR 8MD.ST
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.VLH8
Plus Code: 9C7RXR32+XW
Entry Name: 123 Hanover Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 113-123 (Odd Nos, Including 117A) Hanover Street and 16A Queen Street with Railings
Listing Date: 3 March 1966
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 368096
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29004
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 123 Hanover Street
ID on this website: 200368096
1784-90; later alterations at ground and attic. 3-storey on raised basement and sub-basement with mansard attic classical tenement on corner site. Droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Long and short quoins at corner; corniced shops with large windows at basement. Blind balustraded parapet.
HANOVER STREET ELEVATION: broad irregular 4-bay gable rebuilt as full attic (consoles supporting stack) with broad 2-bay wing to S with mansard; 2 corniced and architraved doorpieces with multi-pane fanlights (lozenge glazing to No 117); right bay with corniced shopfront and bipartite windows at 2nd floor and attic.
QUEEN STREET ELEVATION: 4-bay; shop at basement; mansard with pair of bipartite windows flanking tiny bipartite with diamond glazing.
Timber sash and case windows; plate glass at ground, 12-pane at 1st floor, mixed sashes at 2nd floor and attic. Ashlar coped skews; ashlar stacks; grey slates.
INTERIOR: No 117 (ground floor flat) with pilastered inner doorway and round-headed fanlight with teardrop glazing; former Dining Room in corner with panelled dado and black slate chimneypiece; former Drawing Room to Queen Street with veined white marble chimneypiece and panelled dado; blocked archway formerly gave access to current shop space to S. Common stair with glazed tiles; wrought-iron banister at rebuilt attic level with glazed front doors and fanlights. Basement at Nos 117a -121 contains original ranges, &c (see below).
RAILINGS: cast-iron railings to Queen Street and steps, latter with urn finials.
The Laigh Coffee House at Nos 117a-121 is an Edinburgh institution, having occupied this kitchen space with its original ranges since the last century. This one was owned by Moultrie Kelsall, an actor and conservationist, and opened by Sir Compton MacKenzie in 1956. 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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