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Latitude: 55.9541 / 55°57'14"N
Longitude: -3.1979 / 3°11'52"W
OS Eastings: 325300
OS Northings: 674102
OS Grid: NT253741
Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.Q3
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.VLDV
Plus Code: 9C7RXR32+JV
Entry Name: 84, 86, 88, 90 Hanover Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 84-90 (Even Nos) Hanover Street and 18-24 (Even Nos) Thistle Street
Listing Date: 24 March 1966
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 368115
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29012
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200368115
1784-90; early 19th century shopfront; extension to rear in Rose Street by Covell Matthews Partnership, 1975. 3-storey on raised basement and attic former classical tenement on corner site with shops at ground. Droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings; rubble to gable. Long and short quoins at corner.
HANOVER STREET ELEVATION: 5-bay. Pilastraded 6-bay shop at ground (formerly 2 shops - door to outer left blocked as window), above basement restaurant. 5 piend-roofed dormers (as adjoining block).
THISTLE STREET ELEVATION: irregular 3-bay gable with single bay wing containing pilastraded shop at ground; 3 further modern bays to left.
Timber sash and case 12-pane windows. Ashlar coped skews; reduced rubble stack to gable, rebuilt stone stack to S.
INTERIOR: not seen 1995. Upper floors united with modern block to N (see separate listing).
RAILINGS: plain cast-iron railings to steps and basement.
Interconnecting and redeveloped with the blocks to the N and W. A later mansard was replaced as part of the redevelopment. A Group with Nos 60-82 Hanover 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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