55 Abbeyhill is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 September 2008. Former police station.
55 Abbeyhill
- WRENN ID
- woven-pilaster-river
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 September 2008
- Type
- Former police station
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Robert Morham, 1896. Single storey, 6-bay, irregular-plan castellated Romanesque former Police Station with distinctive advanced finialled, conical-roofed fishscale slated corner turrets and deep corbelled and battlemented parapet. Snecked, rock-faced red sandstone. Deep chamfered base course, band course. Animal figure gargoyles. Central round-arched chamfered doorway with recessed 2-leaf studded timber entrance door with semi-circular fanlight above. Round-arched window openings with roll-moulded architraves, some with stone column mullions. Gabled, louvred, timber lucarnes to turrets.
Later metal grids obscure windows. Grey slates. Red ridge tiles with ball finial details. Cast iron rainwater goods with decorative hoppers.
Detailed Attributes
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