108 West Bow, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 February 1975. Tenement block.

108 West Bow, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
gilded-cupola-dock
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 February 1975
Type
Tenement block
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Alexander W Macnaughton, 1879. 4-storey 3-bay Baronial terraced tenement block with shops to ground floor. Cream ashlar (painted to ground). Ground floor corniced; bays separated by pilasters with strapwork detail. Channelled pilaster strips flanking bays to 1st and 2nd floors. Stone-mullioned windows to 1st floor: tripartite to centre, bipartite in outer bays. Central bipartite window to 2nd floor with panelled detail below, in arched hood. Corbelled string course stepping up over carved panels between 2nd and 3rd floors. Central window at 3rd floor with strapwork detail and carved panel above in finialled crowstepped gable; outer windows with finialled pedimented dormerheads. Corbelled eaves; pedimented skewputts.

Plate glass in timber sash and case windows; modern glazing to shop. Grey slates. Corniced stack with circular cans.

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