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Latitude: 55.9532 / 55°57'11"N
Longitude: -3.2008 / 3°12'3"W
OS Eastings: 325113
OS Northings: 674005
OS Grid: NT251740
Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.4F
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.SMZK
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ3X+7M
Entry Name: 36-38 Frederick Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 71 George Street and 36 and 38 Frederick Street
Listing Date: 12 December 1974
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 370872
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30102
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200370872
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Office building
Thomas Purves Marwick, 1908; refaced at ground. 4-storey and attic Baroque office on corner site with 3-bay 5-stage corner tower. Polished cream sandstone ashlar. Canted corner with terms on cherub consoles at 3rd floor supporting cornice, and rising to octagonal 5th storey with consoles supporting copper cupola. Ground floor rebuilt as plate glass shopfront with polished pink granite facings under original cornice. 1st floor windows keystoned with pulvinated frieze and cornice; 2nd floor windows keystoned with broken cornices; 3rd floor windows with splayed reveals and arched heads linking piers with elaborate armorial cartouches; mutuled cornice; parapet broken by pedimented attic windows.
GEORGE STREET ELEVATION: 3 bays to left of tower
FREDERICK STREET ELEVATION: 3 bays to right of tower. Further outer bay with splayed oriel above ground, finishing at attic with segmental-pedimented tripartite window.
Timber casement windows. Pitched roof with gables to W and N; ashlar coped skews; corniced ashlar stacks; grey slates.
INTERIOR: modernised at ground.
Originally named Gresham House.
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