Fountainbridge Telephone Exchange, 116 Fountainbridge, Edinburgh

Stewart Sim, 1948-52. 4-storey Modern L-plan flat-roofed building formed by meeting of rectangular and bow-ended blocks. Polished cream sandstone ashlar. Large steel-framed windows; white-painted metal aprons to fenestration of rectangular block; protruding cills to bowed block.

SE (FOUNTAINBRIDGE) ELEVATION: 3-bay. Cill course; plain giant pilasters dividing glazed screen wall.

NE (GARDNER'S CRESCENT) ELEVATION: 10-bay. Recessed glazed 4 bay screen wall to outer left; ridged pilasters. Single bay return adjoins regularly fenestrated 2-bay bow; door at ground; lintel course extending to 6 bays to right; glazing to SE side of staircase extends full-height of upper floors; roof level higher than adjoining blocks; metal structure with satellite antennae to roof. 6 bays to right regularly fenestrated.

SW ELEVATION: 7-bay. As SE elevation, with metal semi-circular projections between floors to bays to inside of penultimate bays. Variety of machinery vents and wires attached. Plain rectangular-plan block, with 2-leaf timber door to return at ground.

Steel-framed fixed and casement windows; 6- and 9-pane to rectangular block; 6-pane to ground, 4-pane to upper floors of bow-ended block; 60-pane to SE side of staircase.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES: coped grey sandstone ashlar boundary walls to corner of Fountainbridge and Gardner's Crescent; iron gate; sandstone ashlar piers and iron gates to entrances on Fountainbridge and Gardner's Crescent.