Mecca State Social Club, 204-208 Great Junction Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1995. Cinema. 6 related planning applications.

Mecca State Social Club, 204-208 Great Junction Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
spare-sill-violet
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 1995
Type
Cinema
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

James Miller & Partners, 1938. Large rectangular Modern Movement former cinema, 2-storey flat-roofed front block with curved corner entrance and tower, warehouse-like auditorium to rear. Grey harl and white rendered breeze blocks, rear hall red brick.

Front block: 3-bay 3-storey office building to NW with shops at ground floor; centre bay rendered and breaking eaves in off-set parapet, long vertical strip window now blocked; bay to left with advertising hoarding; to right bipartite windows at 1st and 2nd floor with triangulated rendered mullions. Narrow rendered tower with long vertical triangulated motif to SE, pyramidal roof with green glazed pantiles. SE corner defined by 2-storey 3-bay curved rendered entrance, 5 doorways at ground floor, 3 single windows above. Single bay fronting Mill Lane (?) rendered with off-set parapet breaking eaves and vertical strip window. NW elevation with irregular windows and large advertising hoarding.

Cinema block: harled to SE; NW elevation facing Water of Leith red brick with large blocked windows to basement.

Metal casement windows. Corrugated sheeting to hall.

Interior: vestibule with Art Deco detailing; main auditorium with vertical strip motifs to side walls, stage wall decorated with Art Deco detailing.

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