Salvation Army Women's Hostel, Grassmarket, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 December 1995. Former women's hostel.
Salvation Army Women's Hostel, Grassmarket, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- inner-mortar-briar
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1995
- Type
- Former women's hostel
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
John Hamilton (of Glasgow), 1910. 4-storey 5-bay former women's hostel (now annexe of Edinburgh College of Art) with Art Nouveau details and finialled ogee-roofed corner tower. Squared and snecked bull-faced sandstone, cream/grey to ground, red above ground floor, with polished dressings; brick to W elevation, white-glazed brick to rear. Cornice over ground floor with timber lettered fascia below; timber bracketed eaves.
N (WEST PORT) ELEVATION: 2-leaf timber panelled door in small-pane glazed screen to centre in moulded surround with consoled segmental pediment over, containing good Art Nouveau lettering (see Notes); 3-storey pilaster strips flanking windows above; stylised flat pediment to 3rd floor window breaking eaves. Pedimented dormerhead breaking eaves to outer right. Polygonal corner tower to outer left, corniced at 2nd floor, corbelled out above chamfered corner to outer left.
E (VENNEL) ELEVATION: recessed bay to outer left (adjoining Portsburgh Chapel, see Notes); timber panelled door to left with small-pane glazed fanlight; stylised flat pediment breaking eaves above. 4 bays to right regularly fenestrated.
Smal- pane glazing above, 2-light casements below in timber sash and case windows. Greenish-grey slates. Cast-iron down pipes with decorative hoppers. Tall corniced stacks with circular cans to wallhead to E and small stack to W gablehead.
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