Working Men's Home, 70, 72, 74, 76 Grove Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 January 1998. Tenement. 3 related planning applications.
Working Men's Home, 70, 72, 74, 76 Grove Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- north-outpost-grove
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1998
- Type
- Tenement
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Frederick T Pilkington, 1864. 4-storey, 6-bay, L-plan tenement. Hammer-dressed squared and snecked sandstone; ashlar doorpiece. String course between ground and 1st floor; projecting cill course to 2nd floor; eaves course; raised wallhead at centre; coped pediment.
NE (GROVE STREET) ELEVATION: 2 entrance doorways at centre; fluted brackets and cornice to architraved doorway to left; corniced lintel and fanlight to doorpiece to right; 2-leaf timber doors. Voussoired round-arched single windows to 2 bays to right at ground; recessed infill to tympana; square single windows to 2 bays to left of entrance; timber door to outer left. Regular fenestration to 1st and 2nd floors; decorated shouldered hoods to recessed infilled window heads. Flanking attached columns; cushion capitals; decorative blind shouldered openings between alternate bays at 2nd floor. Single windows to 3rd floor; ogival window to 3rd bay from left.
Replacement glazing. Ornamental ironwork window boxes to 1st floor. Coped mutual stacks; circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen 1997.
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