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Latitude: 55.9527 / 55°57'9"N
Longitude: -3.2007 / 3°12'2"W
OS Eastings: 325121
OS Northings: 673951
OS Grid: NT251739
Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.5L
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.TM1X
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ3X+3P
Entry Name: 74 George Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 72-76 (Even Nos), and 72A George Street and 34 Frederick Street with Railings
Listing Date: 13 January 1966
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 367492
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28874
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 74 George Street
ID on this website: 200367492
Circa 1775; subsequent alterations. 3-storey basement and attic, 10-bay (4-1-5) former classical tenement on corner site with shop built out at corner ground. Droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Long and short quoins at corner.
GEORGE STREET ELEVATION: common stair door at centre; 5 bays to right with cornices and architraves at ground, tripartite doorpiece at centre with fluted frieze, mutuled cornice and early 20th century mansard roof with 3 large corniced bipartite dormers; 4 left bays with modern shop at ground, plain eaves cornice.
FREDERICK STREET ELEVATION: 5-bay; gable to 4 right bays. Modern shop at ground.
Timber sash and case 12-pane windows. Rendered brick stacks, rebuilt stone mutual stack to W; ashlar coped skews; grey slates.
INTERIOR: not seen 1995.
RAILINGS: cast-iron barley twist railings.
No 76 was William Burn?s office for a while. A Group with Nos 78-92 (even nos) George Street, and Nos 20-32 (even nos) Frederick 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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