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Latitude: 55.953 / 55°57'10"N
Longitude: -3.193 / 3°11'34"W
OS Eastings: 325601
OS Northings: 673967
OS Grid: NT256739
Mapcode National: GBR 8NF.QJ
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.XMPR
Plus Code: 9C7RXR34+5Q
Entry Name: Old Waverley Hotel, 42, 43, 44 Princes Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 42-46 (Inclusive Nos) and 42A Princes Street and 1 South St David Street, Incorporating the Old Waverley Hotel
Listing Date: 19 December 1979
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 369518
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29504
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200369518
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Hotel
John Armstrong, 1883. Busy 6-storey and double attic Free Renaissance hotel on corner site with shops at ground. Polished cream sandstone ashlar, with Peterhead granite shafts to windows. Traces of pilastered corniced shopfronts remain. Small corner drum capped by engaged domed tempietto. Facades framed by channelled pilaster strips (polished granite at ground). Alternate bays project slightly from 1st to 4th floors. Complex but regular blend of trabeated, Venetian and arcaded windows, with segmental pediments at 5th floor. Modillioned cornice; mansard roof with end pavilions; arched dormers to 1st attic and oculi to 2nd; brattishing lost. 8 bays to Princes Street; 6 to South St David Street, N bay bowed with ashlar attics.
Rendered rear elevation with open well and applied iron fire escape.
Timber sash and case plate glass windows. Grey slates.
INTERIOR: much altered but Dining Room at corner of 1st floor survives with elaborate plasterwork and fluted Corinthian columns.
A very tall building for its age, it was originally served by hydraulic lifts.
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