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66-68 Thistle Street, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9538 / 55°57'13"N

Longitude: -3.1999 / 3°11'59"W

OS Eastings: 325170

OS Northings: 674066

OS Grid: NT251740

Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.97

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.TMD3

Plus Code: 9C7RXR32+G2

Entry Name: 66-68 Thistle Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 66-68 (Even Nos) Thistle Street

Listing Date: 13 January 1966

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 370361

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29845

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 66 - 68 Thistle Street

ID on this website: 200370361

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Shop Tenement

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Description

Late 18th century; subsequent alterations. 3-storey and attic, 3-bay tenement with shop at ground. Coursed rubble sandstone. 4-bay shop at ground with enlarged plate glass windows and door to centre right (stonecleaned). 2nd floor blank at centre. Large bipartite piend-roofed slate-hung dormer to left.

Irregular 2-bay rubble gable, 4-storey at rear, with door to upper floors at ground to right. Small gabled 2-storey warehouse adjoining to rear, with garages at ground and loading doors above.

Timber sash and case 12-pane windows. Ashlar coped skews; grey slates; rendered and rebuilt stacks.

INTERIOR: not seen 1995.

Statement of Interest

A Group with Nos 26-64 (even nos) Thistle 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. Thistle Street was built as plainer artisan dwellings and workshops and has survived with few significant alterations.

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