Tolbooth, High Street, South Queensferry is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1971. Town hall.
Tolbooth, High Street, South Queensferry
- WRENN ID
- lunar-finial-crag
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1971
- Type
- Town hall
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
17th century main block; steeple of 1720; belfry and spire 1807; clock 1887. 2-storey main block; square and snecked rubble at rear; harled at front; ashlar dressings. 4-stage steeple with spire; sandstone ashlar at ground; harled upper stages; ashlar dressings; string course at 1st, 2nd and 3rd stages; projecting cornice at eaves.
MAIN BLOCK
N ELEVATION: modern shop door and window to right of steeple; bipartite above; dormer window with arched pediment at attic.
E ELEVATION: adjoining Rosebery Memorial Hall.
S ELEVATION: 2 1st floor windows.
Small pane sash and case windows. Slate roof; crowstepped W skew; ashlar stack at W gablehead; tall central stack at rear.
STEEPLE: 4-faces; Queensferry Arms on 1st stage; war memorial below; small windows square in proportion to 2nd and 3rd stages on W, N and E faces; arched window at 4th stage on all faces; blocked on S. Projecting Jubilee Clock on 4 faces of octagonal steeple. Pend through tower W to E; stairs to High Street; well dated 1817.
INTERIOR: greatly altered.
Detailed Attributes
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