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Latitude: 55.9539 / 55°57'14"N
Longitude: -3.2006 / 3°12'2"W
OS Eastings: 325131
OS Northings: 674080
OS Grid: NT251740
Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.55
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.TM31
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ3X+HQ
Entry Name: 51, 53, 55, 55A Frederick Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 51-55 (Odd Nos) and 55A Frederick Street with Railings
Listing Date: 24 March 1966
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 367345
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28786
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 51, 53, 55, 55a Frederick Street
ID on this website: 200367345
1786-92; later 19th century projecting shopfront at ground. 3-storey basement and attic, 10-bay classical tenement. Droved cream ashlar sandstone with polished dressings. Rusticated at ground, and long and short quoins; mutuled cornice with blocking course. 4th bay from S set back with architraved and corniced common stair doorway (No 53) with 3-pane fanlight. Ground floor altered to right (No 51) with projecting pilastered and corniced 4-bay shopfront, incorporating 3-bay shop to right of arched doorway to 1st floor with panelled door and plate glass fanlight; full-width slate-hung box dormer with single and tripartite windows. 6 N bays (No 55) rusticated at ground with Roman Doric columned doorpiece to 4th bay from N (main door flat); basement with
3 large segmental-arched windows to S of stair, door and window to right; 2 piend-roofed dormers, that to left canted.
Rubble gable with windows to each floor at centre; rendered at ground with single storey extension to rear.
Timber sash and case 12-pane windows. Ashlar coped skews; rebuilt coped ashlar stacks (brick mutual stack to N); grey slates.
INTERIOR: largely modernised.
RAILINGS: cast-iron spearhead railings.
A Group with Nos 57-61 (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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