This traditional tenement-style apartment is big enough for an extended family or group of friends visiting Edinburgh. On Lothian Road, it’s a short walk from the high street shops and sprawling gardens of Princes Street and there are plenty of restaurants, pubs and bars right outside your door to choose from. A twelve-minute walk sees you in the medieval Old Town where Edinburgh Castle stands above the city. Inside, it feels like a mesh of modern and old with a sleek white kitchen sitting against the ornately corniced ceiling. The open-plan living arrangement would suit social butterflies who like to chat away the evening, holed up on the huge slate-grey sofa. Bedrooms feel spacious with high ceilings and there are reminders of tenement life in Edinburgh throughout – the traditional wall press and original fireplaces in some of the bedrooms, for example.

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