Science Block, George Heriot's School, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 July 1986. School.
Science Block, George Heriot's School, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- over-gateway-acorn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1986
- Type
- School
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
John Chesser, 1887, incorporating Alexander Black's 1883 primary school. Long single storey and basement (2-stories to rear) piend-roofed asymmetrical school block with Scots Renaissance and Jacobean details. Coursed sandstone. Parapet with loopholes. Buckle quoins. Regularly fenestrated; windows in moulded surrounds.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 10 bays to left, regularly fenestrated. Advanced 3-bay entrance block to right: square-plan entrance tower: 2-leaf timber door with arched plate glass fanlight in key-blocked round-arched opening, flanked by Doric pilasters on pedestals with open pediment containing strapwork decoration; raised parapet with carved decoration under cornice and inscription (SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL DEPARTMENTS, 1887) above, slightly recessed flanking bays with single windows and decorative parapet. 2 bays to right partly obscured by later additions.
12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Piended grey slate roof. Cast-iron down pipes with decorative hoppers.
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