104-105 Princes Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 February 1985. Former hotel. 5 related planning applications.
104-105 Princes Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- wild-tracery-yew
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1985
- Type
- Former hotel
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
George Beattie & Son (W Hamilton Beattie), 1875-6. 4-storey, mansard attic and double garret, 4-bay Free Renaissance former hotel. Polished cream sandstone ashlar. Modern shop at ground. Upper floors framed by channelled pilasters; architraved windows. 1st and 2nd floors with canted end bays; centre windows arched at 1st floor with sculpture of musical instruments and foliage beneath cornices; 2nd floor windows pedimented; tripartite windows to outer bays at 3rd floor. Mutuled cornice with lion?s head consoles. Panelled parapet broken by 3 bipartite wallhead dormers; outer dormers with channelled pilasters and segmental pediments with central urn finials, centre with panelled and fluted pilasters and pediment breaking parapet. 2 tiers of 6 small dormers, round-headed to upper garret.
Timber sash and case plate glass windows, 4-pane to attics. Ashlar coped skews; massive corniced ashlar stacks; grey slates.
INTERIOR: converted to modern retail.
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