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Latitude: 55.9898 / 55°59'23"N
Longitude: -3.3934 / 3°23'36"W
OS Eastings: 313169
OS Northings: 678304
OS Grid: NT131783
Mapcode National: GBR 20.VRKV
Mapcode Global: WH6S9.VQ80
Plus Code: 9C7RXJQ4+WJ
Entry Name: 55-56 High Street, South Queensferry
Listing Name: 55 and 56 High Street
Listing Date: 22 February 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 386309
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB40383
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200386309
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Almond
Traditional County: West Lothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
18th century. 2-storey and attic; three bay; L-plan. Painted harl and margins; raised cill to 55 High Street. Band course.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: architraved doorpiece with pilasters in right bay; architraved doorpiece in centre; shop window in left bay; regular fenestration pattern at 1st floor; windows in roof.
W ELEVATION: single windows in right bay of gable end; single windows in far left bay.
N ELEVATION: single window in left bay; central windows in W wing; modern attic extension; rubble lean to in re-entrant angle.
E ELEVATION: single window in left bay at ground.
Timber sash and case windows; variety of astragal patterns. Grey slate roof; straight stone skews and skewputts; tall, coped stacks at gableheads.
A traditional L-plan dwelling house with fine original cornice doorway. Later 20th century extensions and alterations have been sensitively assimilated so as not to spoil the traditional plan of the building.
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