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Latitude: 55.9537 / 55°57'13"N
Longitude: -3.1987 / 3°11'55"W
OS Eastings: 325250
OS Northings: 674053
OS Grid: NT252740
Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.K8
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.VM06
Plus Code: 9C7RXR32+FG
Entry Name: 45 George Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 45 George Street
Listing Date: 13 January 1966
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 367439
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28836
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 45 George Street
ID on this website: 200367439
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Terrace house
Circa 1775; refaced and extra storey added by Thomas Hamilton, 1829; alterations by Covell Matthews Partnership, 1974. 4-storey and attic 3-bay classical former house. Polished cream sandstone ashlar. At ground, 4-bay fluted Ionic colonnade screens glazed shopfront behind. 1st and 2nd floor windows with moulded cill course and architraves; cornices at 1st floor, and 3 flag poles. Dentilled cornice above; 3rd floor with windows set in square recesses, with further cornice and blocking course.
4-storey and raised basement dressed stone elevation to lane with modern double mansard attic.
Timber windows; 4-pane casements at 1st floor, 12-pane sash and case to upper floors. Ashlar coped skews; corniced stone stack to E, rendered to W; grey slates.
INTERIOR: outstanding, but significantly modernised; retreating pair of rooms divided by screen of paired Ionic columns, with domed saloon to rear.
Rebuilt as part of a unified scheme for Nos 43-45 (subsequently apparently extended to Nos 39-41, with which it shares the 2nd and 3rd floor detailing) by Thomas Hamilton, at which time Nos 43-5 were both given an Ionic colonnade at ground for William Blackwood Bookseller and T & J Blackwood, Silk mercers; it was later replaced at No 43. A central pediment for both houses was planned, but may not have been built. Used as Blackwood?s shop and office until 1972. Part of the original fabric of Edinburgh?s New Town, one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain. A Group with Nos 33-63 (odd nos) George Street.
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