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17-19 Frederick Street, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9522 / 55°57'8"N

Longitude: -3.1996 / 3°11'58"W

OS Eastings: 325191

OS Northings: 673893

OS Grid: NT251738

Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.DS

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.TNL9

Plus Code: 9C7RXR22+V5

Entry Name: 17-19 Frederick Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 17 and 19 Frederick Street and 104A Rose Street

Listing Date: 24 March 1966

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 367338

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28781

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 17 - 19 Frederick Street

ID on this website: 200367338

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

1786-92; later alterations at ground. 3-storey basement and attic, 4-bay classical tenement on corner site with shop at ground. Droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Long and short quoins; eaves cornice. 2 shops, that to right 19th century with door to left, dentilled cornice and 12-pane shop window; public basement bar below; that to left installed 1994 (now united as single office) with stepped platt in front. Large modern slate hung box-dormer to right with

2 windows, smaller dormer to left.

Rubble harl-pointed gable with irregular fenestration to each floor and subsidiary rendered stacks flanking apex stack. Flats accessed by 104a Rose Street (see separate listing - Nos100 -104 Rose Street).

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Ashlar coped skews; rendered stacks (added to N gable); grey slates.

INTERIOR: modernised office. Flats unseen 1995.

Statement of Interest

The bar extends into Nos 9-15 (see separate listing). One of the quoins at 1st floor level on the corner has FREDERICK STREET carved in proud letters on it. Former render at ground to Rose Street removed revealing partly blocked arched openings. A Group with Nos 9-15 (odd nos) Frederick 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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