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Latitude: 55.9534 / 55°57'12"N
Longitude: -3.1906 / 3°11'26"W
OS Eastings: 325751
OS Northings: 674014
OS Grid: NT257740
Mapcode National: GBR 8PF.6C
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.YMTD
Plus Code: 9C7RXR35+9P
Entry Name: 16, 17, 18 Princes Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 16-18 (Inclusive Nos) Princes Street
Listing Date: 12 December 1974
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 369514
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29501
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 16, 17, 18 Princes Street
ID on this website: 200369514
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Commercial building
George Beattie & Son (W Hamilton Beattie), 1864; subsequent alterations. 4-storey and attic broad single canted bay neo-Greek block with modern shopfront at ground surmounted by original scrolled balustrade. Polished cream sandstone ashlar. 1st and 2nd floors articulated by giant Tower of the Winds order fluted columns supporting heavy entablature; 3rd floor attic storey with later mansard attic above. Architraved windows, paired at centre, with central consoled pediment with acroteria at 1st floor. Paired dormer to mansard.
Plate glass timber windows; sash and case at 1st floor. Grey slates; ashlar coped skews and stacks.
INTERIOR: modern retail premises at ground.
This late flowering of the Greek revival reflects Beattie?s early purism.
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