18-20 George Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 February 1985. Office. 8 related planning applications.
18-20 George Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- odd-rubble-laurel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1985
- Type
- Office
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
W Hamilton Beattie, 1879; remodelled internally and extended to rear by Robert Hurd and Partners, 1978. 4-storey and double attic, broad 3-bay French Renaissance office. Cream sandstone ashlar. Projecting at ground; with panelled pilasters and consoled cornice; 3-bay shopfront to right with segmental-pedimented door with decorative console brackets and 2-leaf bronze doors in elaborately moulded architraves; single bay incorporating entrance to left; plate glass windows. Upper floors with canted pilastered window at centre; outer bays slightly advanced and flanked by paired pilasters. Entablature to each floor; pediment to centre bay. 1st attic storey with paired arched windows framed by pilasters and aedicules flanking centre bay; centre section repeats at 2nd storey.
Cast-iron mullions and transoms at 1st floor. 4-pane timber sash and case above, with iron mullions. Grey slates; ashlar coped skews, stone stacks.
INTERIOR: modernised.
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