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Latitude: 55.9511 / 55°57'3"N
Longitude: -3.2041 / 3°12'14"W
OS Eastings: 324904
OS Northings: 673771
OS Grid: NT249737
Mapcode National: GBR 8LG.G6
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.RPF6
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ2W+C9
Entry Name: 123 Princes Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 123 Princes Street
Listing Date: 20 February 1985
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 369535
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29513
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 123 Princes Street
ID on this website: 200369535
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Late 18th century; interior recast by David Bryce, 1850; facade remodelled and heightened by W Hamilton Beattie, 1873. 4-storey and attic, 3-bay. Polished cream sandstone ashlar. Modern shop at ground built out over basement area. Broad painted projecting 5-light window to 2 left bays at 1st and 2nd floors, with Corinthian pilasters and entablature, bracketed cornice (continuing across facade), blocking course and acroteria. Remaining windows with architraves, and consoled cornice at 1st floor. Eaves cornice and blocking course. Tripartite central ashlar wallhead dormer with pilaster mullions and scrolls, entablature and segmental pediment; flanked by segmental-headed timber dormers.
Timber sash and case plate glass windows. Mansard roof with grey slates; ashlar coped skews; stacks removed.
INTERIOR: Bryce?s Jacobean ceiling survives at ground, enclosed within later ceiling; cornices to upper floors.
Formerly the City Club. Incorporates 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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