What is recorded here

Castle Street is a thin knife-edge of old Edinburgh, where 12 and 14 still carry the shape of an 18th-century house and flat, now patched with a modern shop. The address sits so close to the rock and the castle that even an ordinary door may have watched soldiers, merchants and frightened people pass above it. What is known is small, but the place is not empty: it is a narrow strip of the city where domestic life, trade and power still press against one another.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Edinburgh, 12 - 14 Castle Street as Flat (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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