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Latitude: 55.9498 / 55°56'59"N
Longitude: -3.1918 / 3°11'30"W
OS Eastings: 325668
OS Northings: 673619
OS Grid: NT256736
Mapcode National: GBR 8NG.YM
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.YQ74
Plus Code: 9C7RWRX5+W7
Entry Name: 2-10 St Giles Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 2-10 (Even Nos) St Giles Street
Listing Date: 12 December 1974
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 370952
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30161
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200370952
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
David Bryce and Robert Smith, 1872. 4-storey and attic Scots Baronial corner tenement block with shops to ground and 1st floors; 8 bays to St Giles Street; single 2-window gabled bay to High Street; slated conical roof with weathervane and small timber dormer to bowed corner bay. Coursed ashlar. Continuous cornices to ground and 1st floors. Shouldered openings to pilastraded ground and 1st floors, those to ground floor with engaged Corinthian colonnettes, those to 1st floor flanked by Corinthian pilasters. Crowstepped gables with heraldic panels and apex stacks. 3 2-window gabled bays to St Giles Street; intervening single bays with finialled, pedimented dormerheads breaking eaves to attic; timber-panelled door with plate glass fanlight to centre.
Plate glass to shops, 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows above. Corniced apex stacks with circular cans. Grey slates.
St Giles Street was formed by in 1869, by the demolition of tenements and closes. The site belonged to the Royal Bank, and was developed by them. St Giles Street became a street of newspaper offices; Nos 2-10 were originally the offices of the Glasgow Herald.
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