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Latitude: 55.954 / 55°57'14"N
Longitude: -3.1999 / 3°11'59"W
OS Eastings: 325176
OS Northings: 674089
OS Grid: NT251740
Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.B4
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.TLFZ
Plus Code: 9C7RXR32+H3
Entry Name: 59-61 Thistle Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 59 and 61 Thistle Street
Listing Date: 13 January 1966
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 389825
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43361
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 59 - 61 Thistle Street
ID on this website: 200389825
Circa 1775. 3-storey basement and attic, 5-bay tenement with shops at ground, built on ground falling to N (rear). Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. At centre ground, round-headed doorway with architrave, keystone and metal gate leads to common stair; 2-bay rendered and stone corniced shop to left; 2 rendered bays to right part of adjoining public bar (see separate listing - No 55). Pair of piend-roofed tripartite dormers.
5-storey 4-bay rear elevation, with garage doors created at ground.
Timber sash and case 12-pane windows; plate glass to shops. Ashlar coped skews; rebuilt stone stacks, brick to rear; grey slates.
INTERIOR: not seen 1995.
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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