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Latitude: 55.9543 / 55°57'15"N
Longitude: -3.1981 / 3°11'53"W
OS Eastings: 325289
OS Northings: 674124
OS Grid: NT252741
Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.P1
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.VL9Q
Plus Code: 9C7RXR32+PQ
Entry Name: 96 Hanover Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 92-102 (Even Nos) Hanover Street with Railings
Listing Date: 24 March 1966
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 368118
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29013
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 96 Hanover Street
ID on this website: 200368118
1784-90; 19th century shops at ground. 3-storey basement and attic, 6-bay classical tenement on corner site. Droved cream sandstone ashlar (partly painted) with polished dressings.
HANOVER STREET ELEVATION: 4-bay block to S with architraved common stair door to right; adapted early 19th century 2-bay shop to left with slender pilasters and dentilled cornice; later 19th century shop to right with panelled pilasters and consoled cornice (presumably formerly the same as above); shop in basement. At 1st floor 3 left bays with architraved and corniced windows, that to right paired. Single piend-roofed dormer. Projecting 2-bay N block with 2 shops at ground and consoled cornice; tripartite windows to upper floors; further consoled cornice with solid parapet and 2 large gabled wallhead tripartite dormers.
THISTLE STREET ELEVATION: coursed rubble gable with 3 bays displaced to left; early 19th century pilastraded shopfront at ground.
Timber sash and case windows; plate glass and 4-pane. Ashlar coped skews; rendered stacks; grey slates.
INTERIOR: not seen 1995.
RAILINGS: plain cast-iron railings; barley-twists to stairs.
A Group with Nos 104-118 (even nos) 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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