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51-55 Thistle Street, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.954 / 55°57'14"N

Longitude: -3.1996 / 3°11'58"W

OS Eastings: 325190

OS Northings: 674096

OS Grid: NT251740

Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.C4

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.TLKX

Plus Code: 9C7RXR32+J4

Entry Name: 51-55 Thistle Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 51-55 (Odd Nos) Thistle Street

Listing Date: 13 January 1966

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 389824

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43360

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 51 - 55 Thistle Street

ID on this website: 200389824

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1775. 3-storey basement and attic, irregular 5-bay tenement with shops at ground, built on ground falling to N (rear). Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. At centre ground, doorway to common stair with internal steps; 3-bay rendered and stone corniced shop to right, with enlarged windows and deep-set door; rendered bay to left with pilastered doorpiece to bar to outer left (incorporates part of ground floor of Nos 59&61 - see separate listing). 2 piend-roofed tripartite dormers, flanking single dormer.

5-storey 4-bay rear elevation partly built out at basement and ground.

Timber sash and case 12-pane windows; plate glass to shops. Ashlar coped skews; rebuilt stone stacks; grey slates.

INTERIOR: not seen 1995.

Statement of Interest

A Group with Nos 35-67 (odd nos) Thistle 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. Thistle Street was built as plainer artisan dwellings and workshops and has survived with few significant alterations.

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