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Latitude: 55.9533 / 55°57'12"N
Longitude: -3.1999 / 3°11'59"W
OS Eastings: 325173
OS Northings: 674017
OS Grid: NT251740
Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.BD
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.TMFG
Plus Code: 9C7RXR32+82
Entry Name: 65 George Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 65 George Street, Phillips, and 43-45 South West Thistle Street Lane
Listing Date: 20 February 1985
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 367449
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28842
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200367449
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Auction house
J N Scott and A Lorne Campbell, 1907-8. Towering 5-storey and attic, 3-bay auction house. Pale pink polished Dumfriesshire sandstone ashlar. Ashlar mullions and transoms to all but ground and 4th floor. At ground, door to right, 2 plate glass windows with roll-moulded reveals, whole flanked by carved ornaments suspended from ribbons; mutuled cornice. 1st floor with slender pilasters and dentilled cornice framing windows. Angle pilaster strips rising from 2nd floor to eaves cornice; windows set between chamfered piers; bipartite windows at 4th floor with bracketed lintels; gilded fleur-de-lys anchor plates between 3rd and 4th floor. Mutuled eaves cornice with 4 brackets. 6-light timber box-dormer with dentilled cornice. Rubble side elevations.
6-storey stair tower projects to rear. To E, to rear of No 63 George Street, 4-storey 3/5 bay block with garaging at ground, and tripartite window above; cill courses to upper floors.
Upper floor windows with casements and small panes to upper lights. Mansard roof with ashlar coped skews, scrolled skewputts; grey slates.
INTERIOR: panelled entrance hall and corridor; showrooms at each floor; top-lit Alexander Room to rear at ground, behind No 63 George Street (see separate listing).
Built for Dowells Auctioneers.
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