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24 Frederick Street, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9524 / 55°57'8"N

Longitude: -3.2005 / 3°12'1"W

OS Eastings: 325132

OS Northings: 673915

OS Grid: NT251739

Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.6Q

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.TN45

Plus Code: 9C7RXQ2X+XQ

Entry Name: 24 Frederick Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 24-28 (Even Nos) and 24A Frederick Street

Listing Date: 24 March 1966

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 367352

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28792

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200367352

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

1786-92. 3-storey and attic, 9-bay classical former tenement. Droved cream sandstone ashlar. Ground floor built out as shops; extra storey with further attic to 4 N bays (with flagpole). Common stair at centre. Mutuled eaves cornice. Corniced tripartite box dormer above common stair; 2 piend-roofed dormers to left (1 bipartite); pair of bipartite box dormers to N.

Timber sash and case windows; 12-pane to S (lower plate glass sash at 1st floor), plate glass to N. Ashlar coped skews; stack removed to S; rendered stacks at centre; corniced stone stacks to N; grey slates.

INTERIOR: shops modernised. Modern access to tenement stair; many alterations to incorporate lift and offices.

Statement of Interest

Main door flats formerly with door to centre inner bay. A Group with Nos 20-32 (even 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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