What is recorded here

Edinburgh, 19 Castle Street was an 18th-century house and flats that became 19th-century shops, a common life for castle-to-market streets where bedrooms sat above counters and stairs carried milk, coal and visitors upward. It may have smelled of tea, tallow and wool, with lantern light moving along narrow pavement while people worked below and slept above. The building still belongs to that busy city rhythm even when its rooms change hands or close for the night.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Edinburgh, 19 Castle Street as Flat(s) (18th Century), House (18th Century), Shop(s) (19th 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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