302 And 304 Portobello High Street, Portobello, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 September 1995. Commercial building.

302 And 304 Portobello High Street, Portobello, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
open-cloister-weasel
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 September 1995
Type
Commercial building
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Later 19th century with later alterations. 2-storey 4-bay (including chamfered corner bay) building terminating terrace, with shop accommodation at ground. Polished ashlar. Band course between ground and 1st floor, dentilled cornice between ground and 1st floor, cill course, cornice and blocking course.

SW (PORTOBELLO HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: windows in each bay at 1st floor. Ornamental-panelled pilasters and consoles to fascia in bay to outer left now used as shop window. 4-pane plate glass shopfront in bays to centre bays; door in canted corner bay with consoles flanking doorpiece. Metal fascia at eaves with faded lettering advertising restaurant and tea rooms at Melville house.

SE (BELLFIELD STREET) ELEVATION: 2-bay, windows in each bay at 1st floor. Continuation of shop front of No 304 Portobello High Street, 2-pane plate glass shop window and console to outer right of left bay supporting cornice. Corniced and pilastered doorpiece with squared pediment above, to panelled door in bay to right with deep-set panelled door (with patterned glass to upper panels) and patterned glass rectangular fanlight above (entrance to No 2 Bellfield Street).

Variety of windows 4-pane, 6-pane timber sash and case windows. Piended tripartite dormer window in bay to inner left. Grey slate roof with 3 single paned skylights to SW and one to SE. Rendered and coped mutual stacks and sandstone ashlar stacks to roof apex.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1994.

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