Description

James Nisbet, 1792; facade and some original core retained by Robert Hurd and Partners, 1984. 3-storey, 9-bay former classical tontine building. Polished cream ashlar sandstone (stonecleaned and much restored). Rock faced rustication to basement. Channelled arcaded windows at ground with similar tripartite doorway at centre with radiating fanlight. 1st floor windows with raised architraves and simple cornices; pedimented to inner bays. Composite giant panelled pilasters at 1st and 2nd floors to centre 3 bays and outer bay; fluted frieze between framing pilaster and centrepiece. Flag poles flank centre window at 1st floor.

Timber sash and case windows; 12-pane, 15-pane at 1st floor. Ashlar coped skews, rebuilt stone stacks; grey slates.

INTERIOR: enormous modern office ranged around central atrium; retains principal of rooms at front of block.

RAILINGS: modern replacement cast-iron spearhead railings with

4 cast-iron lamp standards.

Statement of Interest

The former Tontine Building, which was never completed, and so fitted out as cavalry barracks during the Napoleonic Wars. Then became a government office and much altered at ground. The ground floor arcading was restored in 1984, as part of a redevelopment which retained only the facade, and included No 118 next door (see separate listing). A Group with Nos 112-128 (even 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 Q17806850

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)