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Latitude: 55.9517 / 55°57'6"N
Longitude: -3.2051 / 3°12'18"W
OS Eastings: 324846
OS Northings: 673841
OS Grid: NT248738
Mapcode National: GBR 8LF.8Z
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.QNZQ
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ2V+MX
Entry Name: 126-128 George Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 126 and 128 George Street
Listing Date: 13 January 1966
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 367506
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28886
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200367506
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Shop Terrace house
Circa 1785; subsequent alterations (see Notes). 3-storey and attic, 6-bay former pair of classical houses, mostly built out as shops at ground. Droved cream sandstone ashlar (stonecleaned) with polished dressings. 2 E bays with modern channelled ashlar at ground and broad depressed arch doorway; modern shops project to right. 1st floor windows with architrave, frieze and cornice; 2nd floor windows architraved. Eaves cornice and later mansard roof containing dormers to each bay.
Timber sash and case 12-pane windows. Ashlar coped skews; grey slates.
INTERIOR: modern offices and shops.
The facade was taken down and rebuilt in 1973-5 development by R Seifert, at which time the mansard and doorway were rebuilt. A Group with Nos 112-124 (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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