Merchant Company Hall, 22 Hanover Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1966. Office, hall. 1 related planning application.
Merchant Company Hall, 22 Hanover Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- silent-vestry-vermeil
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1966
- Type
- Office, hall
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
David Bryce Jnr, 1865-6; internal alterations MacGibbon and Ross, 1879; L-plan front replicated to form U-plan T P Marwick, 1901; restored by
L Graham MacDougall, 1959. Large 3-storey and attic, 6-bay Italianate offices and hall (former bank). Polished stonecleaned cream sandstone ashlar.
HANOVER STREET ELEVATION: outer bays advanced with canted windows at ground and 1st floor. Pedimented porch with fluted paired Corinthian columns in N angle. Shell-headed windows at ground.
ROSE STREET ELEVATION: 5 bays at ground and 1st floor, 3 at 2nd; detailing as above. Hall with domed roof to rear; 3-bays with arched windows to Rose St, 5 bays to lane.
Timber sash and case 12-pane windows. Piended copper roof.
INTERIOR: original telling room is now the Hall; formerly lined with Corinthian columns (now largely removed); putti in attic representing Trade, Industry and the Arts. Remaining rooms and stair with good detailing of 1879. Further banking hall to S with Corinthian screen.
Detailed Attributes
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