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4 Hanover Street, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9523 / 55°57'8"N

Longitude: -3.1969 / 3°11'48"W

OS Eastings: 325355

OS Northings: 673896

OS Grid: NT253738

Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.XR

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.VNT8

Plus Code: 9C7RXR23+W6

Entry Name: 4 Hanover Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 78 Princes Street and 2-4 Hanover Street

Listing Date: 28 March 1996

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 389769

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43320

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200389769

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Late 18th century with later 19th and 20th century additions. 3-storey and attic former classical corner tenement with shops built out at ground and 1st floor. Painted droved ashlar sandstone with timber architraves. Surviving 2nd floor with long and short quoins, cornice, and later moulded architraves to windows. Modern granite faced shopfronts at ground and 1st floors (earlier at 1st floor), with canted corner.

PRINCES STREET ELEVATION: 5 bays and cornice with masked brackets; solid parapet (no coping); modern box dormers to each bay.

HANOVER STREET ELEVATION: 4-bays and plain cornice, mostly spanned by 2-bay gable; solid coped parapet and single dormer to right. Further plain 3 bays to N; upper section of blocked 1st floor windows projecting above 1st floor shopfront.

Timber sash and case windows to upper floors; plate glass and 4-pane. Grey slates, ashlar coped skews, stone apex stack; mutual stack removed to N.

INTERIOR: modern shops at ground and 1st floor.

Statement of Interest

The 1st floor shopfront is of a piece with that adjoining at 79 Princes Street (see separate listing). Listed at Category B 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. A Group with Nos 14-18 Hanover Street.

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