What is recorded here

Fifty Castle Street stands as an eighteenth-century house and flats, still wearing the shape of the people who first climbed its stairs. A twentieth-century war memorial marks the building, suggesting that some loss belonged there and needed a visible anchor. The exact address survives because memory and stone both refused to erase it.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Edinburgh, 48, 50 Castle Street as Flat(s) (18th Century), House (18th Century), War Memorial (20th 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.

The historic-place record does not grant public access. Check current conditions and ownership before entering land or a building.