What is recorded here

Castle Street in Edinburgh, 23 and 23a, is an 18th-century terraced house that became a 20th-century shop. The old domestic bones still stand beneath the trading front, a reminder that castle towns keep changing their purpose while keeping their shape. Whether it sold tools, thread or something forgotten entirely is no longer certain, but the address still points to a working street where private life and public commerce shared one wall.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Edinburgh, 23, 23a Castle Street as Shop (20th Century), Terraced House (18th 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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