87 George Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 January 1966. House. 10 related planning applications.
87 George Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- north-cobble-auburn
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1966
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Circa 1775; interior by David Bryce, 1835; shopfront renewed 1910, and again 1993. 3-storey and attic 3-bay former classical house, with shopfront built out at ground. Droved cream sandstone ashlar. 3-bay shopfront with splayed central entrance and panelled door to upper floors to right contained below consoled cornice and fascia. Lugged architraves to 1st floor windows; centre window with consoled pediment, flanking ones corniced; pair of flagpoles at 2nd floor; eaves cornice. Pair of bowed piend-roofed slate-hung dormers.
Expressed to rear as single storey and basement elevation to lane.
Timber sash and case windows; plate glass with 12-pane to dormers. Ashlar coped skews; rebuilt stone stack to E; grey slates.
INTERIOR: very fine decorative plasterwork and chimneypieces to whole shop; main space incorporating top-lit saloon delineated by columns; offices to rear.
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