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Latitude: 55.9531 / 55°57'11"N
Longitude: -3.1982 / 3°11'53"W
OS Eastings: 325275
OS Northings: 673990
OS Grid: NT252739
Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.NG
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.VM6M
Plus Code: 9C7RXR32+6P
Entry Name: 48 George Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 48-52 (Even Nos) George Street
Listing Date: 13 January 1966
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 367487
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28869
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 48 George Street
ID on this website: 200367487
Circa 1775; later alterations at ground. 3-storey and attic 5-bay (4-1) classical tenement with shops built out at ground. Droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings; channelled quoins to left, rusticated quoins to right; eaves cornice. Dentilled cornice at ground; at centre panelled door to upper floors with rectangular plate glass fanlight; flanked by later 19th century canted shopfronts (much altered). 2 earlier 19th century canted piend-roofed dormers to left.
Rubble return elevation to W with rebuilt rendered nepus gable and applied stack.
Rubble rear elevation with projecting gable; Venetian window to W bay; apex stack.
Timber 12-pane sash and case windows. Roof piended to W; grey slates.
INTERIOR: not seen 1995.
Sir James Simpson lived for a time at No 52. Adjoins the Assembly Rooms, hence the piended roof. A Group with Nos 30-60 (even 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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