4 Hanover Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 March 1996. Tenement. 2 related planning applications.
4 Hanover Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- far-granite-fern
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1996
- Type
- Tenement
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
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.
Detailed Attributes
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