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Latitude: 55.9523 / 55°57'8"N
Longitude: -3.202 / 3°12'7"W
OS Eastings: 325038
OS Northings: 673904
OS Grid: NT250739
Mapcode National: GBR 8LF.WR
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.SNF8
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ2X+W5
Entry Name: 90, 90A George Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 90 and 90A George Street and 78 Rose Street Lane North
Listing Date: 12 December 1974
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 370876
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30107
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200370876
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Late 18th century; remodelled 1847. 3-storey and attic, 3-bay office with shop at ground. Painted render. Built out as shop at ground with pair of panelled doors flanking plate glass 3-pane shop window; entablature and blocking course with amphorae (2 missing at centre). Architraved windows to upper floors. Cornice with cast-iron frieze; parapet with 4 piers and vases. 3 large pedimented dormers.
Gabled painted sandstone elevation to lane with loading doors at centre.
Timber windows; at 1st floor 12 fixed panes, with casement to centre; 2-pane at 2nd floor. Mansard roof; ashlar coped skews, stone stacks; grey slates.
INTERIOR: top-lit saloon to rear.
Adapted in 1847 as picture gallery and showrooms for Scotland's leading house painter, decorator and colour theorist D R Hay; shopfront restored in 1980s. A Group with Nos 30-60 (even nos) George 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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