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Latitude: 55.9529 / 55°57'10"N
Longitude: -3.2023 / 3°12'8"W
OS Eastings: 325023
OS Northings: 673972
OS Grid: NT250739
Mapcode National: GBR 8LF.VJ
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.SM9S
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ3X+53
Entry Name: 91 George Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 91 and 91A George Street with Railings and Lamp Standards
Listing Date: 13 January 1966
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 367457
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28847
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 91 George Street
ID on this website: 200367457
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Terrace house
1785-90 with later alterations. 3-storey and basement 4-bay former classical house. Droved and broached cream ashlar sandstone. Long and short quoins; cill course at 1st floor; eaves cornice. Outer right bay broader with modern Ionic pilastered pedimented doorpiece containing 2-leaf panelled door with arched fanlight with radiating glazing.
3 corniced bipartite box-dormers. Ashlar stairtower protrudes from roof at E apex.
Timber sash and case windows; 12-pane at ground and 2nd floor, 15-pane at 1st; grey slates.
INTERIOR: not seen 1995.
RAILINGS AND LAMP STANDARDS: cast-iron mid 19th century railings and pair of lamp standards.
The doorpiece was originally a corniced tripartite arrangement. Part of the original fabric of Edinburgh?s New Town, one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain. One of the few houses on George Street to have never been extended at ground. A Group with No 93 George Street.
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