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Latitude: 55.9522 / 55°57'7"N
Longitude: -3.1969 / 3°11'48"W
OS Eastings: 325359
OS Northings: 673887
OS Grid: NT253738
Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.YS
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.VNVB
Plus Code: 9C7RXR23+V7
Entry Name: 2 Hanover Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 78 Princes Street and 2-4 Hanover Street
Listing Date: 28 March 1996
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 389768
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43320
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 2 Hanover Street
ID on this website: 200389768
Late 18th century with later 19th and 20th century additions. 3-storey and attic former classical corner tenement with shops built out at ground and 1st floor. Painted droved ashlar sandstone with timber architraves. Surviving 2nd floor with long and short quoins, cornice, and later moulded architraves to windows. Modern granite faced shopfronts at ground and 1st floors (earlier at 1st floor), with canted corner.
PRINCES STREET ELEVATION: 5 bays and cornice with masked brackets; solid parapet (no coping); modern box dormers to each bay.
HANOVER STREET ELEVATION: 4-bays and plain cornice, mostly spanned by 2-bay gable; solid coped parapet and single dormer to right. Further plain 3 bays to N; upper section of blocked 1st floor windows projecting above 1st floor shopfront.
Timber sash and case windows to upper floors; plate glass and 4-pane. Grey slates, ashlar coped skews, stone apex stack; mutual stack removed to N.
INTERIOR: modern shops at ground and 1st floor.
The 1st floor shopfront is of a piece with that adjoining at 79 Princes Street (see separate listing). Listed at Category B 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. A Group with Nos 14-18 Hanover Street.
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