85-87 Shandwick Place, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 March 2001. Commercial building. 4 related planning applications.
85-87 Shandwick Place, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- grim-pediment-ebony
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 March 2001
- Type
- Commercial building
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
R Thornton Shiells & Thomson, 1889. 4-storey, 2-bay symmetrical shop building. Polished black granite at ground floor; polished red sandstone ashlar above. Modern shop fascia at ground floor; lintel course at each floor; cill course to 2nd and 3rd floors. Chamfered reveals to mullioned and transomed windows; half-fluted pilasters flanking windows at 1st floor; recessed panels with central geometric shapes flanking windows at 2nd and 3rd floors.
NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: modern shop front at ground floor with panelled timber pend door offset to right. Regularly disposed 4-light canted windows in each bay at each floor above, with individual polygonal roofs.
SW AND NE ELEVATIONS: obscured by adjoining buildings.
SE ELEVATION: not seen 2000.
2-pane timber sash and case windows; modern shop windows at ground floor. Grey slate to polygonal roofs; vestigial finials. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: fitted as modern shop at ground floor; unseen elsewhere.
Detailed Attributes
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