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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