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Latitude: 55.9545 / 55°57'16"N
Longitude: -3.197 / 3°11'49"W
OS Eastings: 325358
OS Northings: 674143
OS Grid: NT253741
Mapcode National: GBR 8MD.XZ
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.VLTK
Plus Code: 9C7RXR33+Q6
Entry Name: 21-23 Thistle Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 21 and 23 Thistle Street
Listing Date: 23 July 1993
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 371132
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30301
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 21-23 Thistle Street
ID on this website: 200371132
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Terrace house
Late 18th century; largely rebuilt circa 1990. Pair of 3-storey basement and attic 3-bay end-of-terrace classical houses built on ground falling to N, later bay added to W. Broached and droved cream ashlar sandstone with polished dressings.
S (THISTLE STREET) ELEVATION: cill course at ground. At centre, paired pilastered doorpieces with uniting cornice, panelled doors and 3-pane fanlights; further doorway to far left bay; panelled door. 3 piend- roofed canted dormers.
W (SIDE) ELEVATION: 7-bay, gabled. 3 windows at 2nd floor; 1 blocked at ground; bipartite window in rebuilt gablehed. Swept corner to N.
NE THISTLE STREET LANE ELEVATION: 4-storey and attic 6-bay; rebuilt with mansard roof; predominantly harled with sandstone dressings; further stone bay to right. Garages at ground. 5 dormers.
12-pane timber sash and case windows. Ashlar coped skews; grey slates (top lighting to attic); rebuilt stone stack.
INTERIOR: now single office, retaining some interior features, including room with panelled dado, cornice and grey marble chimneypiece.
These buildings still substantially retain their original appearance to Thistle Street. A Group with Nos 91-123 (odd nos) Hanover 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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