5 Upper Bow, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 January 1989. Tenement. 2 related planning applications.
5 Upper Bow, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- weathered-foundation-moss
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1989
- Type
- Tenement
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Thomas Moncur, 1882. 4-storey and attic 4-bay tenement with 17th century Scottish Revival detailing, stepped with slope of street. Rock-faced squared and snecked sandstone with polished dressings (painted ashlar to ground). Corniced ground floor; corbel table to attic. Long and short quoins; stop-chamfered corners to ground. Windows in tabbed surrounds. Advanced gabled bay to outer left: glazed door with plate glass fanlight in re-entrant angle. Recessed 3-bay block to right: stop-chamfered pilastraded openings to shops at ground floor (modern glazing); bipartite windows to right; carved panel with initials and date (188?-worn) between left and centre bays, with corbelled-out chimneybreast above, rising to wallhead gable flanked by windows; piend-roofed dormer to right.
6-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates.
Detailed Attributes
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