What is recorded here
Castle Street has always been a place of edges. Those numbers mark rooms where people lived, worked and disappeared into the ordinary city. The street keeps them close enough to touch, but it does not explain itself.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Edinburgh, 54, 56, 58, 58a Castle Street as Flat(s) (18th Century), House (18th Century), Shop (period Unknown). 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.
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