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44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh

A Category C Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9401 / 55°56'24"N

Longitude: -3.1807 / 3°10'50"W

OS Eastings: 326348

OS Northings: 672523

OS Grid: NT263725

Mapcode National: GBR 8RL.64

Mapcode Global: WH6SM.3YNM

Plus Code: 9C7RWRR9+2P

Entry Name: 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: Clerk Street South, 44-74

Listing Date: 29 April 1977

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 366668

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28556

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200366668

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1869. 4-storey ashlar astylar tenement block with
ground floor shops continuous in treatment with above,
5 canted bays at 2 and 3-window intervals on continuous
podium of advanced ground floor shops with dentilled
cornices, S section of facade canted out to shop frontage
to unify with earlier tenements adjoining, architraved
windows with cornices at 1st floor.

Statement of Interest

Between these blocks is the former Southern Literary

Institute by Robert Paterson 1870, tall 2-storey astylar

Italian with alternating pediment and the first floor

windows and urns at the parapet, in its present state

now too spoiled by loss of the original ground floor to

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