188 High Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Commercial building. 3 related planning applications.

188 High Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
drifting-flue-yew
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Commercial building
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

George Smith, 1845. Narrow, 4-storey and attic, 3-bay, Scots Jacobean commercial building with corbelled and shouldered wallhead gable. Basket-arched pend to Borthwicks Close to ground floor left. Later frontage to police centre to right. Ornamental bracketed cornice between ground and 1st floor. 1st floor windows corniced with strapwork pediments. Cill course to 2nd floor; ornamental cornices above. Projecting bracketed cills to 3rd floor windows. Bracketed, corbelled-out wallhead attic gable breaking eaves; bipartite segmental-arched window to centre with shouldered hoodmould and needle finial at apex. 6-storey to rear with further corbelled gable to side (W) elevation.

12, 8 and 4-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate. Particularly broad axial ashlar stacks. Clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

Detailed Attributes

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