Description

Circa 1790; 19th century additions removed and ground floor rebuilt by Robert Hurd and Partners, 1973-4. 3-storey basement and attic, 6-bay classical office. Droved cream ashlar sandstone with polished dressings. Rusticated at ground; round-headed tripartite doorway to inner right bay. 1st floor windows architraved and corniced (consoled above door) with moulded cill course. Cornice and lead covered blocking course. 6 modern canted piend-roofed slate-hung dormers.

Timber sash and case 12-pane windows. Ashlar coped mutual skews, stone stacks. Recessed downpipes to flanks and centre (absent to left); grey slates.

INTERIOR: modern office behind retained facade.

RAILINGS AND LAMP STANDARDS: cast-iron spearhead railings and pair of replacement wrought- and cast-iron lamp standards.

Statement of Interest

Former pair of houses; a full width projecting shopfront with applied Composite order was removed by Robert Hurd, and replaced with the present arrangement. Kirkwood shows a matching pair of houses with tripartite doorways to the inner bays and plain 1st floor windows - the moulded cill course and enrichments presumably date from the time of the shopfront, when these windows must have been enlarged. A Group with Nos 125-141 (odd nos) George Street as a significant surviving part of the original fabric of Edinburgh's New Town, one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17806651

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