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Latitude: 55.9525 / 55°57'8"N
Longitude: -3.2019 / 3°12'6"W
OS Eastings: 325043
OS Northings: 673924
OS Grid: NT250739
Mapcode National: GBR 8LF.XP
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.SNG3
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ2X+X6
Entry Name: 88 George Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 88 and 88A George Street
Listing Date: 12 December 1974
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 367499
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28880
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200367499
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Circa 1775; refaced and shop added by Peddie & Kinnear, 1876. 3-storey and attic, 3-bay offices with shop built out at ground. Painted droved sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Shopfront with consoled cornice and pierced parapet incorporating door to upper floors to left, modernised shop to right. Upper floor windows architraved and grouped together; at 1st floor centre window pilastered, with consoled pediment, and all united with fluted frieze and cornice. Modillioned cornice and lead covered blocking course. Bowed piend-roofed dormer to right.
Timber sash and case 4-pane windows. Ashlar coped skews; stone stacks, rendered to E; grey slates.
INTERIOR: thoroughly modernised at ground.
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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