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104-112 Hanover Street, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9545 / 55°57'16"N

Longitude: -3.1983 / 3°11'53"W

OS Eastings: 325277

OS Northings: 674142

OS Grid: NT252741

Mapcode National: GBR 8MD.NZ

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.VL6L

Plus Code: 9C7RXR32+QM

Entry Name: 104-112 Hanover Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 104-112 (Even Nos) Hanover Street and 4 North West Thistle Street Lane

Listing Date: 24 March 1966

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 368122

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29014

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 104 - 112 Hanover Street

ID on this website: 200368122

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

1784-90; later shops at ground; attic storey by Robert Morham, 1880. 4-storey and basement, 7-bay classical tenement. Droved cream sandstone ashlar (paint removed 1994) with polished dressings. Long and short quoins. At centre, steps to common stair door with cavetto moulded architrave and cornice; simple pilastered and corniced built out shop to left; built out shopfront to right with mutuled cornice incorporating door to 1st floor public bar; shop with large canted centre bay flanked by doors, and decorative glazing to upper panes. Former eaves cornice above 2nd floor. Cornice and balustraded parapet with dies.

2-storey 7-bay range to lane with top-lit studio at 1st floor.

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Rendered stacks; grey slates.

INTERIOR: not seen 1995.

Statement of Interest

A Group with Nos 104-118 (even nos) 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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