Description

1784-90; subsequent alterations and additions. Former pair of 2-storey and attic 3-bay classical houses. Droved cream sandstone; timber architraves. Modern shops built out at ground (earlier shop cornice survives to S). 3 right bays with lugged architraves to upper floors, circa 1900, corniced with keystones at 1st floor. 3 left bays with single large canted window at 1st floor; architraves at 2nd. 2 early 19th century bowed slate-hung dormers, to outer bays.

Timber sash and case and casement windows; variety of glazing. Stone mutual stacks; grey slates.

INTERIOR: shops completely modernised.

Statement of Interest

This may be the tenement built with shops at ground by Robert Brown, before 1788; Kirkwood certainly shows a pair of 3-bay shopfronts. There is a distinct break in the build between the two houses. A Group with Nos 70-77 (inclusive nos) Princes 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.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17808267

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6