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Latitude: 55.9528 / 55°57'10"N
Longitude: -3.205 / 3°12'18"W
OS Eastings: 324850
OS Northings: 673967
OS Grid: NT248739
Mapcode National: GBR 8LF.8K
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.QMZV
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ3V+4X
Entry Name: Sovereign House, 12 Young Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 10 and 12 Young Street, Sovereign House
Listing Date: 29 March 1996
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 370741
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30006
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200370741
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Office building
Alan Reiach, Eric Hall & Partners, 1970. 2-storey and mansard attic 14-bay modern office treated as 4 houses. Droved cream sandstone cladding. Bays displaced 4-3-3-4; centre doors false.
Brick rear elevation oversailing open garaging.
Timber sash and case 12-pane windows. Mansard roof; grey slates.
INTERIOR: modern open plan offices.
The site was feued to the builder Young in 1779, and became officially known as Young Street in 1806. This site was occupied by the Unitarian Church from 1823, and acquired with Nos 12-20 by St George?s School in 1834. It had become derelict by 1970, and was demolished and rebuilt in Young?s idiom. A Group with Nos 8-22 (even nos) Young Street as part of Edinburgh?s New Town, one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain.
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