Fine Art Department, Central Public Library, George Iv Bridge, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Corner block.
Fine Art Department, Central Public Library, George Iv Bridge, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- muffled-gallery-grove
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1974
- Type
- Corner block
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
John Henderson, 1836-7. 3-storey Baronial/Jacobean corner block, 4 bays to George IV Bridge, 5 bays to Victoria Street. Polished ashlar. Cornice to ground floor; modillioned eaves course; pierced strapwork parapet. Panelled pilaster strips to corners with stylised finials. Regularly fenestrated. Modillioned cornices to 1st floor windows; projecting cills and slim cornices with central heraldic devices to 2nd floor windows.
E (GEORGE IV BRIDGE) ELEVATION: pierced parapet with ball finials to 1st floor balcony; strap-work decoration over 1st floor windows. 2-leaf decoratively panelled timber door to outer left with small-pane glazed fanlight; projecting balcony over with sculpture group (see Notes). 2-leaf timber panelled door in 2nd bay from right.
N (VICTORIA STREET) ELEVATION: timber panelled door and glazed panels in depressed-arched surround to outer right. Blind window to centre at 1st floor.
INTERIOR: top-lit reading room at 3rd floor with kingpost roof.
Small-pane glazing; timber sash and case windows to ground and 2nd floors; top hoppers to 1st floor. Stacks in solid panels of parapet with circular cans.
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