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Latitude: 55.9524 / 55°57'8"N
Longitude: -3.2056 / 3°12'20"W
OS Eastings: 324815
OS Northings: 673919
OS Grid: NT248739
Mapcode National: GBR 8LF.5Q
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.QNQ5
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ2V+XQ
Entry Name: 127, 129 George Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 127 and 129 George Street with Railings and Lamp Standards
Listing Date: 13 January 1966
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 367470
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28857
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 127, 129 George Street
ID on this website: 200367470
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Circa 1790; 19th century additions removed and ground floor rebuilt by Robert Hurd and Partners, 1973-4. 3-storey basement and attic, 6-bay classical office. Droved cream ashlar sandstone with polished dressings. Rusticated at ground; round-headed tripartite doorway to inner right bay. 1st floor windows architraved and corniced (consoled above door) with moulded cill course. Cornice and lead covered blocking course. 6 modern canted piend-roofed slate-hung dormers.
Timber sash and case 12-pane windows. Ashlar coped mutual skews, stone stacks. Recessed downpipes to flanks and centre (absent to left); grey slates.
INTERIOR: modern office behind retained facade.
RAILINGS AND LAMP STANDARDS: cast-iron spearhead railings and pair of replacement wrought- and cast-iron lamp standards.
Former pair of houses; a full width projecting shopfront with applied Composite order was removed by Robert Hurd, and replaced with the present arrangement. Kirkwood shows a matching pair of houses with tripartite doorways to the inner bays and plain 1st floor windows - the moulded cill course and enrichments presumably date from the time of the shopfront, when these windows must have been enlarged. A Group with Nos 125-141 (odd nos) George 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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