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Latitude: 55.9525 / 55°57'9"N
Longitude: -3.1971 / 3°11'49"W
OS Eastings: 325345
OS Northings: 673925
OS Grid: NT253739
Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.WN
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.VNR2
Plus Code: 9C7RXR33+25
Entry Name: Merchant Company Hall, 20 Hanover Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 20 and 22 Hanover Street with Railings, Incorporating the Merchants Hall and 39 Rose Street South Lane
Listing Date: 24 March 1966
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 368099
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29006
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 20 Hanover Street, Merchant Company Hall
ID on this website: 200368099
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
David Bryce Jnr, 1865-6; internal alterations MacGibbon and Ross, 1879; L-plan front replicated to form U-plan T P Marwick, 1901; restored by
L Graham MacDougall, 1959. Large 3-storey and attic, 6-bay Italianate offices and hall (former bank). Polished stonecleaned cream sandstone ashlar.
HANOVER STREET ELEVATION: outer bays advanced with canted windows at ground and 1st floor. Pedimented porch with fluted paired Corinthian columns in N angle. Shell-headed windows at ground.
ROSE STREET ELEVATION: 5 bays at ground and 1st floor, 3 at 2nd; detailing as above. Hall with domed roof to rear; 3-bays with arched windows to Rose St, 5 bays to lane.
Timber sash and case 12-pane windows. Piended copper roof.
INTERIOR: original telling room is now the Hall; formerly lined with Corinthian columns (now largely removed); putti in attic representing Trade, Industry and the Arts. Remaining rooms and stair with good detailing of 1879. Further banking hall to S with Corinthian screen.
North half built for the City of Glasgow Bank, and converted to Merchant Company Offices by MacGibbon and Ross in 1879. There was a pair of porches until 1959 when decay of the S one forced its removal.
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