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Latitude: 55.9518 / 55°57'6"N
Longitude: -3.1994 / 3°11'57"W
OS Eastings: 325203
OS Northings: 673841
OS Grid: NT252738
Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.FY
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.TNPN
Plus Code: 9C7RXR22+P7
Entry Name: 98 Princes Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 97, 97A and 98 Princes Street and 1 and 3 Frederick Street
Listing Date: 20 February 1985
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 369527
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29508
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200369527
Later 18th century with later additions. 3-storey and attic former classical tenement on corner site with shops built out at ground (incorporating basement). Droved cream ashlar sandstone with polished dressings. Long and short rusticated quoins. Mutuled eaves cornice.
PRINCES STREET ELEVATION: 4-bay; modern shop with canted corner. Small decorative cast-iron balconies to 2nd floor windows. 2 piend-roofed slate-hung box dormers with canted windows flank diminutive piend-roofed dormer at centre.
FREDERICK STREET ELEVATION: 4-bay gable to right with shop at ground as above, and separate access door to left. 1st and 2nd floors with blind windows to centre right bay. Pair of attic windows in gablehead. 2-bay wing to left with early 20th century 3-bay shop at ground; large plate glass windows flanking recessed central entrance; also built out at 1st floor with 4 mullioned and transomed windows containing diamond leaded windows and stained glass insets, framed by panelled pilasters and entablature; full-width piend-roofed slate-hung roof extension with 2 windows (1 smaller).
Timber sash and case windows; mostly 12-pane, some alterations at 1st floor. Ashlar coped skews; rendered stacks; grey slates.
INTERIOR: 2-storey shop at 3 Frederick Street with remains of original rooms at 1st floor; cornices, chimneybreasts, and Adam revival panelling and chimneypiece. 1st floor rooms above Princes Street shop largely unaltered with carved stone chimneypieces, cornices, &c.
A Group with Nos 99 and 99a Princes Street opposite (with which it forms a pair) and Nos 94-96 (inclusive nos) Princes 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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