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Latitude: 55.9441 / 55°56'38"N
Longitude: -3.2076 / 3°12'27"W
OS Eastings: 324672
OS Northings: 673003
OS Grid: NT246730
Mapcode National: GBR 8KJ.RP
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.PVRJ
Plus Code: 9C7RWQVR+MX
Entry Name: 4, 5, 8 Chalmer's Buildings, 88 Fountainbridge, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 88 Fountainbridge, 1- 8 Chalmers Buildings
Listing Date: 23 January 1998
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 391673
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44932
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200391673
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Patrick Wilson, 1855. 3-storey rectangular-plan range of artisan housing at right angle to street. Squared and snecked stugged rubble; polished grey sandstone ashlar dressings. Strip quoins; droved long and short surrounds.
SE (FOUNTAINBRIDGE) ELEVATION: 2-bay gable end, chamfered at corner to left. Shopfront with moulded, shouldered windows; recessed central entrance door; replacement coursed pink sandstone masonry flanking; single windows to upper floors; plaque with "Chalmers Buildings 1855" carved in relief between 1st floor windows; round-arched single window in gable; slit light to left. Narrow single lights to 1st and 2nd floors of chamfered corner.
SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 18-bay. Doorpieces with bracketed cornices to centre of each 3-bay section at ground (except section to outer right); single windows flanking; painted architraves; cill course to 1st floor of 12 bays to left; single windows to 1st and 2nd floors of all bays; crowstepped pediment to dormer to roof of 4th bay from right; piended wallhead gable with slit light and stack to bay to outer right.
Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof; coped gablehead and wallhead stacks with some corniced cans, machicolated to SE. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen 1997.
As architect to the Pilrig Buildings off Leith Walk of 1850-1, Patrick Wilson influenced other housing schemes of the mid-19th century including Rosebank Cottages and Rosemount Buildings in nearby Gardner's Crescent.
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