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Latitude: 55.9504 / 55°57'1"N
Longitude: -3.2076 / 3°12'27"W
OS Eastings: 324687
OS Northings: 673700
OS Grid: NT246737
Mapcode National: GBR 8KG.RF
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.PPSQ
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ2R+5X
Entry Name: Binns, 144, 145, 146, 147 Princes Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 144-147 (Inclusive Nos) Princes Street
Listing Date: 28 March 1996
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 389781
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43328
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200389781
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
J R MacKay, 1935. 6-storey inter-war classical department store on corner site. Polished cream sandstone ashlar with bronze framing to glazing. Canted corner with single strip window to cornice level, marked by carved B, with small window above and parapet raised slightly as symbolic tower; at 2nd floor level elaborate mechanical clock cantilevered out, with appearing figures. At ground plate glass shop windows framed by polished black marble fascia. Channelled rustication to 1st floor with band course supporting giant 3-storey Doric order columns in antis above; curtain wall glazing between, divided by bronze panels. Cornice with full ashlar attic storey above. 3-bays to Princes Street, 1 to Hope Street.
Bronze multi-pane casement windows.
INTERIOR: converted to modern retail use.
Originally Binns Department Store, hence the incised B on the corner. Now, as Frasers, incorporates the nearly contemporary former bank at
No 3 Hope Street (see separate listing), from which it initially took its design cues.
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