7-8 Maritime Street, Leith, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Warehouse. 2 related planning applications.

7-8 Maritime Street, Leith, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
errant-ember-quill
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 December 1974
Type
Warehouse
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

James Simpson, dated 1893. 4-storey and basement 6-bay warehouse. Cream sandstone, polished ashlar ground floor, squared and snecked stugged rubble with polished dressings above, with stugged dressings to rear and side. Base course; band course above ground floor; eaves cornice; ashlar mullions; barred windows throughout.

SE (FRONT) ELEVATION: corniced shouldered-arched pends with roll- moulded reveals to slightly advanced outer bays; bipartite windows above, 1st (pedimented) and 2nd floor (corniced) windows architraved in recessed panel. Single windows to remaining bays. Pedimented heraldic panel to centre at 1st floor with carved date, ram?s head, crown, grapes and motto ?j?avance?. Short wallhead stacks to corners.

NE (REAR) ELEVATION: single windows to each bay and floor.

SW ELEVATION: truncated gable with wallhead stack to right (small addition behind). 3 single windows.

Barred 4-pane timber sash and case windows. Slate roof; 3 wallhead stacks (see above). Corbelled skewputts. Moulded gutterheads.

INTERIOR: not seen 1993.

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