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Latitude: 55.9526 / 55°57'9"N
Longitude: -3.2006 / 3°12'2"W
OS Eastings: 325127
OS Northings: 673935
OS Grid: NT251739
Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.5N
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.TN21
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ3X+2Q
Entry Name: 30-32 Frederick Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 30-32 (Even Nos) Frederick Street
Listing Date: 28 March 1996
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 389720
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43283
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 30-32 Frederick Street
ID on this website: 200389720
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
1786-92; extended by Victor D Horsburgh or Francis W Deas, 1900. 3-bay 4-storey and attic offices and shop. Original building of droved cream ashlar sandstone, extended in polished ashlar; built out at ground (modernised 1994) and 1st floor - corniced timber glass display window with geometric bow at centre and blind balustrading below cornice. Pilastered arched doorpiece with diamond-pane fanlight to left at ground, giving access to upper floors. 3rd storey cill course at former eaves level; bracketed cornice to outer bays with shaped parapets and segmental-headed dormers in mansard; central ashlar attic bay with paired windows with ogee apron panels and Dutch gable supported on pilasters.
Timber sash and case windows; 4-pane to upper floors; 12-pane to attic. Ashlar coped skews; stacks reduced/removed to S, stone to N; grey slates.
INTERIOR: pilastered inner door with 3-pane fanlight at No 30; straight flight of stairs to 1st floor leads to curving cantilevered former common stair giving access to original flat at each floor.
Kirkwood shows a plain 3-bay house with further door to left to upper flat. Horsburgh and Deas both used the address given on the (unsigned) drawings of 1900. 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. A Group with Nos 20-34 (even nos) Frederick Street.
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