20-26 Grindlay Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 2001. Tenement block. 1 related planning application.
20-26 Grindlay Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- over-balcony-ridge
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 March 2001
- Type
- Tenement block
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Charles George Hood Kinnear, 1866. 4-storey 6-bay tenement block with pedimented pend to outer left and shops to ground floor. Polished ashlar (painted to ground). Continuous cornice to shops; cill course to 1st and 3rd floors; broad moulded eaves cornice. Roll-moulded basket-arched stop-chamfered openings to ground floor. Timber boarded door with plate glass fanlight to flats at centre. Segmental windows to 1st floor, round-arched to 2nd floor, both in lugged architraves; shouldered windows to 3rd floor; bipartite windows to each floor in all but 2nd bay from left; bracketed cills to 2nd floor. Slightly advanced pend to outer left: long and short quoins; channelled pilaster strips flanking entrance; tripartite windows above; corniced wallhead stack above moulded pediment.
Drill Hall for the Midlothian Artillery Regiment constructed to the rear of the tenements (now in use as a restaurant, 2015).
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