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Latitude: 55.9523 / 55°57'8"N
Longitude: -3.2006 / 3°12'2"W
OS Eastings: 325127
OS Northings: 673899
OS Grid: NT251738
Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.5R
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.TN38
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ2X+WQ
Entry Name: 79, 81 Rose Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 77-81 (Odd Nos) Rose Street and 52 Rose Street North Lane
Listing Date: 28 March 1996
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 369771
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29637
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 79, 81 Rose Street
ID on this website: 200369771
Built by 1780; earlier 19th century shops. 3-storey and attic, 3-bay. Rubble; dry-dashed and painted at ground. 2 shopfronts with very simple pilasters at ground; common stair door to right. 2nd floor windows hard under eaves. Bipartite dormer at centre flanked by single dormers. 2-bay return gable with single bay wing to N.
Timber 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Ashlar coped skews; rebuilt and rendered stack; grey slates.
INTERIOR: not seen 1995.
No 77 provides access to the upper floors of No 20-22 Frederick Street (see separate listing), and the block is A grouped with that building and 85-105 (odd nos) Rose Street as 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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