69 George Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 January 1966. Bank. 4 related planning applications.
69 George Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- noble-moulding-sparrow
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1966
- Type
- Bank
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
George Washington Browne, 1905. Large 4-storey and attic Francois Ier bank on corner site. Polished cream ashlar sandstone. Mullioned and transomed windows. Base course and cill course at ground. Ground floor cornice/1st floor cill course articulated by pedestals, supporting pilasters framing upper floor windows grouped in tripartite arrangement; panelled pilasters at 1st floor, giant order Corinthian pilasters to 2nd and 3rd floors; enriched aprons and frieze. Lavish dentilled cornice with pierced parapet. Curved corner expressed by windows as above, with elaborate pilastered and segmental pedimented doorway at ground. 3 bays as above to each elevation.
GEORGE STREET ELEVATION: broad arched window to left at ground, secondary door to right with pair of later small bipartite windows between, perhaps replacing shopfront. Small corniced windows at each floor flank centrepiece; attic gable with segmental pedimented bipartite.
HANOVER STREET ELEVATION: bipartite window to right at ground; corniced windows at 2nd and 3rd floors with wallhead stack above. 3-bay windowpiece to left with double transomed windows at ground, and gable as above.
Timber casement windows. Piended and gabled roof; grey-green slates. Corniced and pilastered wallhead stacks; grey slates.
INTERIOR: Telling Room completely refitted by Henry Wylie and Partners, 1964.
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