What is recorded here

Edinburgh, 15, 17 Castle Street is a shop and tenement where eighteenth-century domestic life and twentieth-century trade still occupy the same stones. The building stands in the City of Edinburgh, Scotland, close enough to castle hills that its rooms may have heard brass and drums before they heard carts. People likely lived above the front door and worked beneath it, carrying purchase and memory through one narrow throat. The address is a small hinge between centuries, not a display case.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Edinburgh, 15, 17 Castle Street as Shop (20th Century), Tenement (18th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

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