Description

David McGibbon, 1863. 4-storey 5-bay plain classical terraced tenement with later shops at ground floor. Coursed ashlar. Stepped continuous cornice above shops; cill course at 3rd floor level; moulded eaves cornice. Windows in lugged and bracketed surrounds to 1st and 2nd floors; bipartites in outer bays.

Plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Shouldered wallhead stack with circular cans; corniced ridge stacks with circular cans.

Statement of Interest

Nos 71-103 Lothian Road were designed by David MacGibbon to complete Burn's plain palace block, echoing his design for Nos 125-165 Lothian Road (formerly known as Downie Place), and forming an impressive piece of urban design in an important situation. On Kincaid's 1784 map Lothian Road is marked as 'New Road' and flanked by fields. A plan similar to what was built for this area, with a square to be known as Orchardfield Square where the Usher Hall is, marked 'This square is not built but is intended,' is on Ainslie's 1804 map. Wood's 1820 plan shows the area more or less as built. The Merchant Company adopted William Burn's plan for the Grindlay's Orchardfield estate in 1820. The 1877 OS map shows this block (Lothian Road, Grindlay Street, Bread Street) complete.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56632027

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)