What is recorded here

Castle Street has always dealt in authority, so an Hmso bookshop fits the area like a key into a lock. The eighteenth-century flats and house above the shop suggest a column of lives stacked around printed fact, maybe scholars, maybe clerks, maybe curious children pressing noses through glass. Edinburgh likes its institutions visible and reachable, and this address keeps that tradition alive.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Edinburgh, 13, 13a Castle Street, Hmso Bookshop as Flat(s) (18th Century), House (18th Century), Shop (modern). 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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