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Latitude: 55.9511 / 55°57'3"N
Longitude: -3.2037 / 3°12'13"W
OS Eastings: 324932
OS Northings: 673772
OS Grid: NT249737
Mapcode National: GBR 8LG.K5
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.RPM5
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ2W+CG
Entry Name: 120 Princes Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 119, 119A and 120 Princes Street
Listing Date: 28 March 1996
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 389779
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43326
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 120 Princes Street
ID on this website: 200389779
Late 18th century with 20th century additions. 2 3-storey and attic 5-bay former classical tenements. Droved cream ashlar sandstone with polished dressings. Modern shops built out at ground; early 20th century timber extension at 1st floor containing 5 broad canted windows with elaborate curvilinear timber glazing set under straight fascia and cornice. Original 2nd floor clearly divided into 2 blocks: to E, 5 plain bays with irregular collection of 3 piend-roofed dormers; to W,
4 bays with long and short quoins and recessed former common stair bay beyond, with mutuled eaves cornice, tripartite box dormer, pair of pedimented dormers, and further segmental pedimented tripartite dormer.
Coursed rubble to rear; 3-bay bow to E with Venetian window above; nepus gable to W; attached iron fire escape.
Variety of timber sash and case windows to upper floors. Ashlar coped skews, stone stacks to W block; grey slates.
INTERIOR: adapted for modern retail units.
A Group with No 118 Princes Street and Nos 2-4 Castle 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. The current appearance is a reinterpretation of earlier alterations.
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