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Latitude: 55.9517 / 55°57'6"N
Longitude: -3.2 / 3°12'0"W
OS Eastings: 325161
OS Northings: 673835
OS Grid: NT251738
Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.9Z
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.TNCQ
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ2X+MX
Entry Name: 99A Princes Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 99 and 99A Princes Street and 2 and 4 Frederick Street
Listing Date: 20 February 1985
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 369530
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29509
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 99a Princes Street
ID on this website: 200369530
Later 18th century with later additions at ground. 3-storey and attic former classical tenement on corner site. Painted droved sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Long and short rusticated quoins at angle. Modern shops built out over basement at ground floor, with canted corner. Moulded eaves cornice.
PRINCES STREET ELEVATION: 4-bay. Pair of canted piend-roofed dormers.
FREDERICK STREET ELEVATION: irregular 3-bay gable and single bay to N; 2 attic windows in gablehead; piend-roofed dormer to right.
Timber sash and case plate glass windows. Grey slates; ashlar coped skews; stone stacks.
INTERIOR: modern retail unit at ground and 1st floor.
A Group with Nos 97-8 Princes Street opposite (with which it forms a pair) and Nos 6-18 (even nos) Frederick 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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