District Registrar's Office, 24 Forrest Road, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 October 2001. Tenement block. 1 related planning application.
District Registrar's Office, 24 Forrest Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- plain-brick-sedge
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 October 2001
- Type
- Tenement block
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
John C Hay, 1872. 4-storey, 4-bay, Scots Baronial tenement block with crowstepped gables and shops at ground floor. Crowstepped gables. 3-storey canted windows to outer bays, kneelered gable with carved panel at apex breaking eaves to outer right, piend-roofed canted windows to outer left. Squared and snecked rock-faced sandstone with polished dressings (painted at ground). Continuous moulded cornice and decorative brattishing to shopfronts with stop-chamfered, segmental-arched openings; corbel table at 3rd floor; moulded eaves course. Stop-chamfered, tabbed surrounds at upper windows. Segmental-arched openings at ground. Timber panelled door with segmental-arched fanlight in roll-moulded surround to centre; single windows in 2 bays above, those at 4th floor with ball-finialled gables breaking eaves.
4-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows. Double pitch grey slate roof. Crowstepped skews. Corniced rendered stacks with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
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