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Latitude: 55.952 / 55°57'7"N
Longitude: -3.2029 / 3°12'10"W
OS Eastings: 324984
OS Northings: 673874
OS Grid: NT249738
Mapcode National: GBR 8LF.QV
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.SN0G
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ2W+RV
Entry Name: 23, 23A Castle Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 23 Castle Street
Listing Date: 3 March 1966
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 389717
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43280
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200389717
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Shop Terrace house
1792-4; subsequent alterations. Former 3-storey basement and attic 3-bay classical house with early 20th century shop built out at ground. Droved sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Arched tripartite doorway survives to left bay. Eaves cornice; pair of later 19th century canted piend-roofed dormers.
Timber sash and case 4-pane windows. Ashlar coped skews; large mutual stacks, stone to N, rendered to S; grey slates.
INTERIOR: at ground, apsidal ended former Dining Room slapped through into shop window at front. Curving cantilevered top-lit stair with alternate decorative cast-iron banisters; simplifies at 2nd floor. At 1st floor, 19th century, and subsequent, alterations; interconnects with No 21 (see separate listing).
Formerly rusticated at ground, unlike the other houses in this block; note that the build is seamless with No 25. A Group with Nos 21-33 (odd nos) Castle 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.
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