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Latitude: 55.9533 / 55°57'11"N
Longitude: -3.1975 / 3°11'50"W
OS Eastings: 325325
OS Northings: 674013
OS Grid: NT253740
Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.TD
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.VMLG
Plus Code: 9C7RXR33+82
Entry Name: 30, 30A George Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 30, 30A and 32 George Street and 54 and 56 Hanover Street
Listing Date: 13 January 1966
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 367480
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28866
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 30, 30a George Street
ID on this website: 200367480
Circa 1775; alterations by David Bryce, 1860; later shops. 3-storey and basement 6-bay classical corner tenement with part built out as shops at ground. Droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Long and short quoins at corner; later timber architraves to 1st floor windows.
GEORGE STREET ELEVATION: 6-bay; centre 2 bays with nepus gable; centre right bay with blind windows; pair of fine bowed slate-hung dormers with bipartite windows. 2 modern shops at ground with polished ashlar fascias and plate glass windows.
HANOVER STREET: 3-bay gable with corniced and architraved door to common stair to left and projecting modern shop to right; interesting shop has five marble clad angled fins each with copper figure, with contrastingly angled glass between. 2-bay wing to left with applied earlier 19th century corniced ashlar facing at ground floor, and open steps to basement shop.
Timber sash and case windows; plate glass, with 12-pane to common stair and attic. Ashlar coped skews and parapet to Hanover St; ashlar apex stacks; grey slates.
INTERIOR: not seen 1995.
The only surviving nepus gable on George Street. This is particularly fine 1960s shop, incorporating original artwork. Listed at Category A 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. A Group with Nos 34-60 (even nos) George Street.
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