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Latitude: 55.9535 / 55°57'12"N
Longitude: -3.2011 / 3°12'4"W
OS Eastings: 325095
OS Northings: 674035
OS Grid: NT250740
Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.2B
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.SMVB
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ3X+9G
Entry Name: 48A Frederick Street, 48, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 48, 48A Frederick Street
Listing Date: 24 March 1966
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 389721
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43284
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 48, 48a Frederick Street
ID on this website: 200389721
1786-92; subsequent alterations. Remaining 3-storey and attic, 3-bay section of classical tenement with shops built out at ground. Droved cream ashlar sandstone. At ground, later 19th century 3-bay shopfront with slender Corinthian columns to left (No 48), 2-bay shopfront to right with consoled cornice (No 48a). Eaves cornice.
4-storey 2-bay rubble rear elevation. 2-storey 2-bay M-roofed coach house to S with rooms above and single storey link to shop.
Timber sash and case plate glass windows; ashlar coped mutual skew and stone stack to S; grey slates.
Roof continuous with 4-bay 4-storey and attic on raised basement corner block (No 50) by Covell, Matthews & Partners, 1969.
INTERIOR: not seen 1995.
Originally 7-bay but N section demolished 1969. Shopfront at No 48 presumably a later adaptation of balancing half to No 48a. Eaves cornice a continuation of that at No 46, with which access has been created at 1st floor. A Group with Nos 44 & 46 Frederick 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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