Edinburgh, 2 Gilmore Park, Former North British Rubber Company

1877-1894. 2-storey and basement with taller section to west, 16-bay, curved L-plan former office premises of the North British Rubber Company. Advanced basement; pilasters dividing bays; cornice to rounded corner bay at south east corner of Gilmore Park; predominantly segmental arched openings. Overpainted polychrome brickwork.

NORTHEAST (GILMORE PARK) ELEVATION: 16-bay, grouped 2-4-7 with 3-bay bowed section to outer right. Blocked door to left, arched window to right at ground in advanced single bay to outer left; bipartite window at 1st floor. Bipartite windows at ground and 1st floors in two bays to left of 4-bay section; single windows at ground and 1st floors in two bays to right. Ashlar doorpiece with keystone and elaborate cornice to outer left of 7 bay section; bipartite window aligned above; basement and single window in adjacent bay to right; basement and bipartite windows at ground and 1st floors in adjacent bay to right. Basement and regular single window fenestration to remaining bays. 3 bays to outer right form bow with Fountainbridge elevation.

NORTHWEST (FOUNTAINBRIDGE) ELEVATION: 5-bay, with 3-bay bowed section to outer left. Regular single window fenestration at ground and 1st floors within recessed arches of 5-bay section to outer right. Boarded timber door at ground with corbelled canopy in bay to outer left, window above is slightly smaller. Recessed boarded timber entrance at ground to outer right in 3-bay bowed section to outer left; regular fenestration at basement, ground and 1st floors.

Predominantly 4 pane timber sash and case windows, 16 pane to north east elevation. Grey slate piended roof; corniced brick wallhead stacks. Cast iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: Part of good interior decorative scheme dating from 1916 survives. It includes panelled entrance hall with painted marble effect metal columns, dentilled cornice, decorative linoleum floor and paired glazed timber screens to side corridors. Open squared staircase with cross pattern decorative wrought-iron balustrade and timber handrail; rectangular cupola with cornice detailing over. First floor corridor suite of panelled timber offices and boardroom including some integral fireplace surrounds (inserts removed 2014).