Description

T Duncan Rhind (of Hamilton Paterson & Rhind), 1903; corner by J D Cairns, 1924; N extension by Cairns and Ford, 1935. Large 4-storey and double attic neo-Baroque retail, cafe and office development on corner site. Polished cream sandstone ashlar with glass and bronze curtain walls. Original narrow 4-bay gabled facades to S and E; Ionic columns and keystoned segmental pediments at 1st floor, rusticated blocks at 3rd; Roman windows and finials to gables, that to Princes Street with extraordinary aediculed niche breaking apex. Later corner section with splayed angle and metal panels, repeating earlier motifs. 3 curtain walled bays between to each elevation. Unifying mutuled cornice and mansard roof with 2 tiers of bipartite dormers, segmentally pedimented at 1st level. Segmentally arched polished granite ground floor. 3 N bays with tripartite polished granite facade at ground; polished sandstone to upper floors palely repeating earlier details; cornice and roof as above.

Timber and metal casement windows. Grey-green slates.

INTERIOR: much altered but fine Art Deco details survive in basement areas and toilets.

Statement of Interest

Built for the bakers McVitie's, and incorporating one of the countries first self service cafeterias (which survives in idea, if nothing else, in the present coffee house). It was built in three campaigns; an initial L-plan, enveloping the corner house; this house was finally acquired and replaced in 1924, and finally 3 bays being added to the N in 1935.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17804204

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014