Edinburgh Industrial Brigade Home, 89, 91, 93, 95 Fountainbridge, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. Former boys' home.

Edinburgh Industrial Brigade Home, 89, 91, 93, 95 Fountainbridge, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
dark-merlon-swift
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 December 1979
Type
Former boys' home
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Frank Worthington Simon, 1898 (restored 1989). 3-storey and attic 4-bay French Renaissance former boys' home (now flats). Hammer-dressed coursed sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Tall arcaded ground floor (formerly shops); conical-roofed 3-storey tourelles corbelled out at 1st floor level from splayed corners. Mutuled eaves cornice; stone-mullioned and -transomed windows with long and short surrounds.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 2 centre bays wider, with semi-elliptical arches to ground floor and tripartite windows to 1st and 2nd floors. Outer bays narrower, with semicircular arches to ground floor and bipartite windows to 1st and 2nd floors. Wallhead stack to centre and aedicule at 1st floor level with mutuled curved pediment and finial (capitals and base left in block) enclosing tablet reading 'Restored by Fountainbridge Housing Association 1989.' Bipartite windows with curved finialled dormerheads to all attic bays. Timber panelled doors in moulded arched surrounds with consoled keyblocks (dated) on corners; 4-light stone-mullioned windows to 1st and 2nd stages of tourelles; bracketed windows with broken scrolled pediments breaking eaves; cornice passing across attic windows; finials to slated conical roofs.

E (THORNYBAUK) ELEVATION: 4-bay. Semicircular arch at ground floor in right bay; narrow windows off-set to left at 1st and 2nd floors. Bipartite windows at ground, 1st 2nd and 3rd floors in 2 left bays (gabled). Stair door in centre bay and 2 windows lighting stair above. Mutuled cornice between 2nd and 3rd floors in 2 right bays; balustered parapet above.

W (PONTON STREET) ELEVATION: 4-bay. Semicircular arch at ground floor in left bay; narrow windows off-set to right at 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors; dentilled cornice between 2nd and 3rd floors, wallhead chimney to left, balustered parapet to right. 3 right bays gabled; arched and rusticated opening (filled in, with window) in left bay, rusticated pilaster strip to right at ground. 3 small windows at 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors.

Windows on principal elevation small-pane leaded, those on the side elevations modern timber replacements. Graded grey slates (formerly roofed with Westmoreland slates). Cast-iron down pipes with decorative (dated) hoppers. Wallhead stacks with circular cans.

Detailed Attributes

Structured analysis including materials, construction techniques, architect attribution, and related listed building consent applications. Sign in or create a free account to view.

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.