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Latitude: 55.9345 / 55°56'4"N
Longitude: -3.1948 / 3°11'41"W
OS Eastings: 325453
OS Northings: 671912
OS Grid: NT254719
Mapcode National: GBR 8NN.C4
Mapcode Global: WH6SS.W3TD
Plus Code: 9C7RWRM4+Q3
Entry Name: Post Office, 19B Strathearn Road, 19A, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 19A & 19B Strathearn Road Incl Gatepiers and Boundary Wall
Listing Date: 19 March 1993
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 371659
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30604
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200371659
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Post office
H M office of Works, 1919, 5-bay symmetrical rectangular-plan postal sorting office. Squared and snecked sandstone; rake-jointed sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; eaves band course.
N ELEVATION: 5-bay with central 3 bays recessed; advanced and architraved doorpiece at centre, keystoned and corniced with obelisk finials above; replacement aluminium doors and fanlight; pilasters flanking single window at 1st floor, with corbels to lintel above. Full-height pilasters flanking single window at 1st floor with corbels to lintel above. Full-height pilasters flanking single windows in 2nd and 4th bays, with corbels to lintel above; aprons to 1st floor windows. Single windows to outer left and right.
E ELEVATION: corbelled chimneybreast.
W ELEVATION: 5 lights to single storey flat-roofed addition; corbelled chimneybreast.
S REAR ELEVATION: large pitched-roof sorting office.
18-pane sash and case windows (upper sash blocked to 1st floor window in 2nd bay). Grey slate roof; corniced gablehead stacks; coped gables; scroll skewputts.
INTERIOR: not seen 1991.
GATEPIERS and BOUNDARY WALLS: 2 coped gatepiers to pedestrian gateway; low coped boundary wall with modern railings to street; high coped mutual boundary walls.
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