45 George Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 January 1966. House. 3 related planning applications.
45 George Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- hollow-pavement-honey
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1966
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Circa 1775; refaced and extra storey added by Thomas Hamilton, 1829; alterations by Covell Matthews Partnership, 1974. 4-storey and attic 3-bay classical former house. Polished cream sandstone ashlar. At ground, 4-bay fluted Ionic colonnade screens glazed shopfront behind. 1st and 2nd floor windows with moulded cill course and architraves; cornices at 1st floor, and 3 flag poles. Dentilled cornice above; 3rd floor with windows set in square recesses, with further cornice and blocking course.
4-storey and raised basement dressed stone elevation to lane with modern double mansard attic.
Timber windows; 4-pane casements at 1st floor, 12-pane sash and case to upper floors. Ashlar coped skews; corniced stone stack to E, rendered to W; grey slates.
INTERIOR: outstanding, but significantly modernised; retreating pair of rooms divided by screen of paired Ionic columns, with domed saloon to rear.
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