Waverley Telephone Exchange Including Boundary Walls And Ancillary Building, British Telecom, 12 East London Street is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 November 2007. Telephone exchange. 3 related planning applications.
Waverley Telephone Exchange Including Boundary Walls And Ancillary Building, British Telecom, 12 East London Street
- WRENN ID
- waiting-tin-jay
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 November 2007
- Type
- Telephone exchange
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
R Saddler, 1964, with later enhancing addition of third floor. Tall 3-storey, 14-bay, rectangular-plan, Modernist telephone exchange with advanced 2-storey, 12-bay, pilastered section to principal elevation. Protruding terrazzo detailed concrete ribbed elements with vertically aligned precast concrete pebble dashed panels to main elevations. Decorative coloured tile panel over former main entrance. Parapet wall railing on posts. Small single storey half sunken boiler room block to rear. Square-roofed access building to SE corner of flat roof. Tiled grid pattern to pavement reflecting main elevation to East London Street. Low, walled gateway to right with integral ancillary building.
Metal windows to lower floors with integral grilles and applied reflective film. Powder-coated metal replacement windows to second floor. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: remains in use as telephone exchange (2007). Plain utilitarian detailing with banks of transformers and cabling to each floor.
Detailed Attributes
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