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Latitude: 55.9533 / 55°57'11"N
Longitude: -3.1908 / 3°11'26"W
OS Eastings: 325742
OS Northings: 673999
OS Grid: NT257739
Mapcode National: GBR 8PF.5D
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.YMRJ
Plus Code: 9C7RXR35+8M
Entry Name: 19-20 Princes Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 19 and 20 Princes Street, Incorporating the Royal British Hotel
Listing Date: 20 February 1985
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 369515
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29502
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: 19–20 Princes Street
19-20 Princes Street
Royal British Hotel
Edinburgh, 19 - 20 Princes Street
ID on this website: 200369515
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Hotel
J MacIntyre Henry, 1896-8. 4-storey and double attic, broad 3-bay hotel. Polished cream sandstone ashlar. Modern ground floor shopfront incorporating entrance to hotel to W. 2 E bays with pair of large bowed tripartite windows to 1st and 2nd floors (mullions and polished granite columns at 1st floor, fluted pilasters at 2nd), linked by shaped 3rd floor balcony; paired arcaded windows at 3rd floor; cornice and solid parapet broken by ashlar bipartite dormers with Dutch gables and wallhead stack between; 4 pedimented timber dormers above. 5-storey W tower bay with arched window at 1st floor, bipartite at 2nd, aedicule at 3rd, and 3 small arched windows at 4th; heavy cornice with pulvinated frieze and pavilion roof with pedimented timber dormer. Carved ornamental panels between 1st and 2nd floors.
Timber sash and case plate glass windows (casements at 3rd floor). Ashlar coped skews and stacks; grey slates.
INTERIOR: staircase with timber balusters and simple panelled ceiling; cupola obscured. Otherwise modernised. Extends to W, into Nos 21-23 Princes Street (see separate listing).
Thomas Hamilton had rebuilt No 19 in 1837.
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