4 Upper Bow, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 January 1989. Tenement. 2 related planning applications.

4 Upper Bow, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
endless-loggia-grain
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 January 1989
Type
Tenement
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

J Russell Walker, 1884-6. 4-storey and attic 3-bay asymmetrical tenement with 17th century Scottish revival detailing, stepped with line of street. Coursed rock-faced sandstone with polished dressings. Corniced ground floor; moulded cill band to 1st , 2nd and attic floors; chequer-set corbelling to right at 2nd floor and under centre 3rd floor window. Roll-moulded tabbed surrounds to transomed windows; band of plain panels over door and left bay; panel with small pediment over rounded corner to outer right at ground. Timber panelled door in shoulder-arched surround with small-pane glazed fanlight over to centre; small segmental pediment over 1st floor window to centre. Long and short quoins; ground floor curved to corner with corbel above. Ball-finialled shaped dormerhead with circular panel in gable over paired windows in left bay; ball-finialled gabletted crowstepped dormerhead with rectangular panel in gable over 2 right bays; gunloop to right.

Small-pane glazing to upper sashes, 4-pane to lower. Grey slates. Corniced L-plan wallhead stack to outer right with circular cans.

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