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Latitude: 55.9527 / 55°57'9"N
Longitude: -3.1965 / 3°11'47"W
OS Eastings: 325386
OS Northings: 673939
OS Grid: NT253739
Mapcode National: GBR 8NF.0M
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.WM1Z
Plus Code: 9C7RXR33+3C
Entry Name: 21-27 Hanover Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 21-27 (Odd Nos) Hanover Street
Listing Date: 28 March 1996
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 389734
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43293
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 21-27 Hanover Street
ID on this website: 200389734
1784-90; subsequent alterations at ground. 3-storey and attic 5-bay former classical tenement with 2 modern shops at ground. Droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Broader bay to right with arched and keystoned doorpiece (modern door) to common stair. Eaves cornice; 2 piend-roofed mid 19th century dormers, that to right larger and tripartite.
Timber sash and case plate glass windows (1 12-pane survives). Grey slates.
INTERIOR: modern shops; flats unseen 1995.
Inverleith House has 2 carved and gesso chimneypieces taken from No 21 Hanover Street. A carved stone above the common stair door records that this building contained the workshop of Alexander Bain, inventor of the electric clock and telegraph. 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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