What is recorded here

Castle Street is a working road in Edinburgh, not a display case for memory. Fourteen and sixteen remain ordinary commercial premises, likely fitting shoes, selling goods or paying rates while the city turned them over and over. The exact address resists the temptation to become a monument, which is rarer and more useful than a monument would be.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Edinburgh, 44 - 46 Castle Street as Commercial Premises (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.