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Latitude: 55.9506 / 55°57'2"N
Longitude: -3.2069 / 3°12'24"W
OS Eastings: 324732
OS Northings: 673721
OS Grid: NT247737
Mapcode National: GBR 8KG.XC
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.QP3K
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ2V+67
Entry Name: 139-140 Princes Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 139 and 140 Princes Street and 5 Hope Street Lane
Listing Date: 12 December 1974
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 370934
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30149
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200370934
Circa 1790; adapted as shops circa 1840. Surviving 3-storey and attic 5-bay section of former tenement. Droved ashlar sandstone with polished dressings. Slightly set back common stair bay to left with architraved doorpiece with pulvinated frieze and pediment; strip of V-jointed rustication survives to right. At ground, small section of rustication; pair of built out tripartite shops to right with cornice and blocking course; that to right drastically altered; that to left in good order with mutuled cornice and tall, 2-leaf panelled doors. Pair of piend-roofed tripartite dormers. Pair of flagpoles.
3-bay rear elevation to Hope Street Lane of dressed rubble with arched door and stair windows at centre; large tripartite windows flank door at ground, that to No 139 with wrought-iron grilles bearing initials W & S.
Timber sash and case windows; plate glass, 12-pane to stair. Ashlar coped skews, rebuilt stone stacks; grey slates.
INTERIOR: both shops have virtually identical plaster enrichments and barrel vaulted saloons to rear. Upper floors rebuilt following fire, 1993.
Listed at Grade A 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, and as a good surviving example of its early adaption as shops.
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