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Latitude: 55.9523 / 55°57'8"N
Longitude: -3.1132 / 3°6'47"W
OS Eastings: 330582
OS Northings: 673809
OS Grid: NT305738
Mapcode National: GBR 2C.Y2JG
Mapcode Global: WH6SN.4NS8
Plus Code: 9C7RXV2P+WP
Entry Name: Royal Bank Of Scotland, 203-205 Portobello High Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 203 and 205 Portobello High Street
Listing Date: 4 September 1995
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 364590
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27424
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200364590
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Portobello/Craigmillar
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Bank building
Peddie and Kinnear, 1864, monogrammed and dated; later alterations (including those by Dick Peddie and Walker Todd, in 1935), subdivided and converted into 4 flats, 1985. 3-storey, 3-bay Italianate bank, slightly advanced from terrace to NW. Polished ashlar, black polished granite base course, polished red granite to columns at ground and 1st floor. Base course, carved band course between ground and 1st floor, moulded cill course, raised cill course also to 2nd floor with band course immediately below, eaves course with closely spaced consoles with rosettes between each to cornice; stop-chamfered margins to windows with rosettes flanking each window (within the architrave of each) at 1st and 2nd floors.
NE (PORTOBELLO HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: tripartite windows to each storey to centre; column mullions to ground and 1st floor. All windows at ground segmental-arched, basket-arched at 1st and 2nd floors. Later granite doorpieces (Dick Peddie and Walker Todd, 1935) to outer bays panelled with raised decorative detail; border-glazed oculi above; foliate decoration between doorpiece and window, bay to right; panelled 2-leaf doors to each (now painted to outer right). Window to each bay to each floor. Carved date stone to outer right, "P K" carved monogram stone to outer left.
SW (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen, 1994. Single storey later addition to SE.
Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Piended and platformed slate roof. Coped ashlar stack to NW.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1994.
Former Royal Bank of Scotland. Sutter's map shows that there was a building upon this site prior to 1864. The listing inlcudes No 25A Portobello High Street.
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