Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

139 AND 140 PRINCES STREET AND 5 HOPE STREET LANELB30149

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
A
Date Added
12/12/1974
Supplementary Information Updated
28/03/1996
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 24732 73721
Coordinates
324732, 673721

Description

Circa 1790; adapted as shops circa 1840. Surviving 3-storey and attic 5-bay section of former tenement. Droved ashlar sandstone with polished dressings. Slightly set back common stair bay to left with architraved doorpiece with pulvinated frieze and pediment; strip of V-jointed rustication survives to right. At ground, small section of rustication; pair of built out tripartite shops to right with cornice and blocking course; that to right drastically altered; that to left in good order with mutuled cornice and tall, 2-leaf panelled doors. Pair of piend-roofed tripartite dormers. Pair of flagpoles.

3-bay rear elevation to Hope Street Lane of dressed rubble with arched door and stair windows at centre; large tripartite windows flank door at ground, that to No 139 with wrought-iron grilles bearing initials W & S.

Timber sash and case windows; plate glass, 12-pane to stair. Ashlar coped skews, rebuilt stone stacks; grey slates.

INTERIOR: both shops have virtually identical plaster enrichments and barrel vaulted saloons to rear. Upper floors rebuilt following fire, 1993.

Statement of Special Interest

Listed at Grade A 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, and as a good surviving example of its early adaption as shops.

References

Bibliography

A J Youngson THE MAKING OF CLASSICAL EDINBURGH (1966) pp79-93. Gifford, McWilliam and Walker EDINBURGH (1988) p313.

About Listed Buildings

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