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Latitude: 55.9473 / 55°56'50"N
Longitude: -3.192 / 3°11'31"W
OS Eastings: 325653
OS Northings: 673335
OS Grid: NT256733
Mapcode National: GBR 8NH.XK
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.YS53
Plus Code: 9C7RWRW5+W5
Entry Name: 56, 56A Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 56 and 56A Candlemaker Row
Listing Date: 19 December 1979
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 366297
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28418
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200366297
Thomas Brown, 1855, probably incorporating earlier fabric (see Notes). 4-storey 3-bay 2-window tenement with shop at ground floor. Coursed squared sandstone, ashlar (painted) to ground; random rubble to rear. Base course; projecting cills to upper windows. Modern boarded timber door to flats to left; modern glazed timber door to shop with plate glass fanlight, flanked by modern shop windows. Centre bay above ground blank, with wallhead stack.
12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Broad central wallhead stack to front, cement rendered wallhead stack to rear.
B group comprises Nos 1-5 Forrest Road, 1-3 Greyfriars Place, 4-6 Greyfriars Place, 30-34 Candlemaker Row (Greyfriars Bobby's Bar, 36-42 Candlemaker Row (including Candlemaker Hall), 44 Candlemaker Row, 46-48 Candlemaker Row, 50-54 Candlemaker Row, 56 and 56A Candlemaker Row and 58-64 Candlemaker Row. Rear elevations of group form eastern boundary of Greyfriars churchyard, setting for an important group of mural monuments. There was a building on this site from the early 18th century. Dean of Guild drawings show the rear of Brown's design incorporating the mural monuments of the churchyard.
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