22-26 St Giles Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Office building. 6 related planning applications.

22-26 St Giles Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
sacred-groin-spindle
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 December 1974
Type
Office building
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

David Bryce, 1872-3, with alterations by George Shaw Aitken, 1895. Scots Baronial office building (see Notes) on steeply-sloping corner site, with pepper-pot turrets to NW and NE; 4 storeys and attic, double basement to N. Ashlar (painted to ground). Continuous cornices to ground and 1st floors. Crowstepped gables with apex stacks.

W (ST GILES STREET) ELEVATION: 2-window gabled bays to outer right and left; 2 pedimented dormerheads and small timber dormer to attic at centre. 2-leaf timber-panelled door to centre with decorative grille to fanlight; decorative grilles below plate glass windows to shop-fronts. Key-blocked windows at 1st floor, round-headed to left, lugged to right; corniced window with key-blocked oculus above to centre (see Notes).

N ELEVATION: regularly fenestrated; : 2-window gabled bays to outer right and left; pedimented dormerhead to centre.

Plate glass to ground floor; small-pane glazing to 1st floor to St Giles St; 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows above.

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