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Latitude: 55.9382 / 55°56'17"N
Longitude: -3.1822 / 3°10'55"W
OS Eastings: 326248
OS Northings: 672313
OS Grid: NT262723
Mapcode National: GBR 8QL.XT
Mapcode Global: WH6ST.20YJ
Plus Code: 9C7RWRQ9+74
Entry Name: 40 Sciennes, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 40 Sciennes
Listing Date: 15 January 1992
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 371446
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30474
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200371446
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Circa 1875. 2-storey, 5-bay rectangular-plan former gas meter works with bays grouped 2-3 under double piended roof; 1st floor link to adjoining 3-bay tenemented to S. Squared and snecked sandstone rubble with stugged ashlar dressings; and polished margins. Buttress to SW angle; 1st floor windows close under eaves.
W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: depressed-arch cart entrance to outer right; single window above. Doorway in 2nd bay from left flanked by window; 9-light fanlight; bipartite window above and to each floor of bay to left. Single windows in remaining bays grouped to right of centre.
S ELEVATIUON: 2 single windows at 1st floor; blocked doorway at ground.
Lying-pane sash and case windows; 9- and 18-pane sashes at ground; 6- and 9-pane sashes at 1st floor. Grey slates to double piended roof.
INTERIOR: not seen 1990.
Low rubble boundary wall to street.
The 1877 OS Map refers to this building as a Meter Works (gas). By the 1940s, Bertram's St Katherine's Engineering Works had taken it over as a canteen. Currently (1991) it is used as offices and photographic studies.
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