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Latitude: 55.9535 / 55°57'12"N
Longitude: -3.1912 / 3°11'28"W
OS Eastings: 325713
OS Northings: 674021
OS Grid: NT257740
Mapcode National: GBR 8PF.2B
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.YMJC
Entry Name: 5-9 (Odd Nos) South St Andrew Street
Listing Date: 20 February 1985
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 370031
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29709
Building Class: Cultural
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Knox and Hutton, 1883. 4-storey and attic, 3-bay Greek Revival office in style of Alexander Thomson with shops at ground. Polished cream sandstone ashlar. At ground to left, 2-leaf panelled door with tapering lugged architrave, fluted frieze, cornice, block pediment and acroteriae; pilastered timber entrance to public bar at centre; corniced shopfront to right (shop is No 5 and partly occupies neighbouring building). Upper floors framed by 2 orders of pilasters rising from 1st floor to eaves cornice. At 1st floor, cill course, mullion and transom windows with bracketed cornices. 2nd floor windows pedimented with cast-iron mullions. 3rd floor windows set into pilastrade, paired piers at centre; incised frieze. 3 arched wallhead dormers, breaking cornice and parapet with moulded skews and acroteria, bipartite at centre.
Timber plate glass sash and case windows. Moulded ashlar coped skews; corniced end stack; grey slates.
INTERIOR: much altered.
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