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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