Latitude: 55.9456 / 55°56'44"N
Longitude: -3.2095 / 3°12'34"W
OS Eastings: 324559
OS Northings: 673171
OS Grid: NT245731
Mapcode National: GBR 8KJ.D4
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.NTWC
Plus Code: 9C7RWQWR+76
Entry Name: 79-83 Morrison Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 79-83 (Odd Nos) Morrison Street
Listing Date: 30 January 1981
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 369167
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29372
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200369167
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Later 19th century. 4-storey, 7-bay, rectangular-plan plain classical tenement with ground-floor shops. Painted polished sandstone ashlar to ground floor; droved sandstone ashlar with polished dressings to upper floors. Base course; cill course to 3rd floor; cornice; architraved windows.
N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: shouldered pend to outer left; tripartite windows to upper floors. Plate glass shop window in central bay of 3 bays to right; flanking timber panelled doors; plate glass fanlights; regular single window fenestration to all floors above. Panelled glass and timber door in central bay of shop to outer right; plate glass fanlight; flanking plate glass shop windows; regular single window fenestration to all floors above.
4-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof with M-gable to E. Corniced gablehead stack to E; corniced ridge stack; coped rendered mutual stacks with No 85 Morrison Street; moulded cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
Later addition to Gardner's Crescent and Morrison Street scheme by R & R Dickson.
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