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Latitude: 55.9432 / 55°56'35"N
Longitude: -3.2114 / 3°12'40"W
OS Eastings: 324435
OS Northings: 672905
OS Grid: NT244729
Mapcode National: GBR 8KK.00
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.MWZ7
Plus Code: 9C7RWQVQ+7C
Entry Name: Working Men's Home, 70, 72, 74, 76 Grove Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 70-76 (Even Nos) Grove Street
Listing Date: 23 January 1998
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 391681
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44939
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200391681
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Frederick T Pilkington, 1864. 4-storey, 6-bay, L-plan tenement. Hammer-dressed squared and snecked sandstone; ashlar doorpiece. String course between ground and 1st floor; projecting cill course to 2nd floor; eaves course; raised wallhead at centre; coped pediment.
NE (GROVE STREET) ELEVATION: 2 entrance doorways at centre; fluted brackets and cornice to architraved doorway to left; corniced lintel and fanlight to doorpiece to right; 2-leaf timber doors. Voussoired round-arched single windows to 2 bays to right at ground; recessed infill to tympana; square single windows to 2 bays to left of entrance; timber door to outer left. Regular fenestration to 1st and 2nd floors; decorated shouldered hoods to recessed infilled window heads. Flanking attached columns; cushion capitals; decorative blind shouldered openings between alternate bays at 2nd floor. Single windows to 3rd floor; ogival window to 3rd bay from left.
Replacement glazing. Ornamental ironwork window boxes to 1st floor. Coped mutual stacks; circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen 1997.
Originally built as a Working Men's Home, now in use as the Herald House Hotel.
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