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44 George Street, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9532 / 55°57'11"N

Longitude: -3.1981 / 3°11'52"W

OS Eastings: 325287

OS Northings: 673999

OS Grid: NT252739

Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.PF

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.VM9K

Plus Code: 9C7RXR32+7Q

Entry Name: 44 George Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 44, 46 and 46A George Street with Railings and Lamp Standards

Listing Date: 13 January 1966

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 367485

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28868

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 44 George Street

ID on this website: 200367485

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: House Shop

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Description

Circa 1775; alterations at ground including shop by Simpson & Brown, 1984-5. 3-storey basement and attic, 4-bay (3-1) former classical house. Droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings; framed by panelled pilaster strips. Stonecleaned at 1st floor, with architraved and corniced windows. 3-bay shopfront to left with inset Ionic columned doorpiece (spectacle order) flanked by multi-pane windows, framed by pilasters and cornice with ball finials (Simpson & Brown). 2-bay mid 19th century shopfront to right with consoled cornice incorporates doorway to shop and upper floors and bipartite shop window. Basement shops; 3 late 19th century piend-roofed canted dormers (1 larger).

Timber sash and case plate glass windows. Ashlar coped skews; corniced rendered stacks; grey slates.

INTERIOR: Trotter?s was recast by Simpson & Brown.

RAILINGS: plain cast-iron railings with replacement lamp standards to No 44 (incorporating Trotter?s lantern).

Statement of Interest

Sydney Smith lived at No 46. The Ionic columns of No 44 have Ionic capitals designed as the conceit of a pair of spectacles resting on a nose, reflecting the occupier?s business as opticians. A Group with Nos 30-60 (even nos) George Street 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.

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