54, 56 Hanover Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 January 1966. Tenement, shop. 8 related planning applications.
54, 56 Hanover Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- open-chalk-cream
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1966
- Type
- Tenement, shop
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Circa 1775; alterations by David Bryce, 1860; later shops. 3-storey and basement 6-bay classical corner tenement with part built out as shops at ground. Droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Long and short quoins at corner; later timber architraves to 1st floor windows.
GEORGE STREET ELEVATION: 6-bay; centre 2 bays with nepus gable; centre right bay with blind windows; pair of fine bowed slate-hung dormers with bipartite windows. 2 modern shops at ground with polished ashlar fascias and plate glass windows.
HANOVER STREET: 3-bay gable with corniced and architraved door to common stair to left and projecting modern shop to right; interesting shop has five marble clad angled fins each with copper figure, with contrastingly angled glass between. 2-bay wing to left with applied earlier 19th century corniced ashlar facing at ground floor, and open steps to basement shop.
Timber sash and case windows; plate glass, with 12-pane to common stair and attic. Ashlar coped skews and parapet to Hanover St; ashlar apex stacks; grey slates.
INTERIOR: not seen 1995.
Detailed Attributes
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