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13, 14, 15 Bank Street, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9499 / 55°56'59"N

Longitude: -3.1931 / 3°11'35"W

OS Eastings: 325591

OS Northings: 673627

OS Grid: NT255736

Mapcode National: GBR 8NG.PM

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.XQN3

Plus Code: 9C7RWRX4+XQ

Entry Name: 13, 14, 15 Bank Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 12-16 (Inclusive Nos) Bank Street

Listing Date: 12 December 1974

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 333980

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB3006

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 13, 14, 15 Bank Street

ID on this website: 200333980

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Circa 1810, with later alterations and additions, 1898. 5-storey and attic corner tenement with shops to ground floor; 5 bays to Bank Street, later canted corner bay with bowed shop to ground floor and 4-storey canted 4-light oriel above (see Notes); 3 bays to North Bank Street. Ashlar (painted to ground). Cill courses at 1st and 3rd floors; dividing band between 1st and 2nd floors.

E (BANK STREET) ELEVATION: bays grouped 4:1; timber panelled storm doors to shops; blind windows at 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors in 2nd bay from left; timber panelled door with small-pane fanlight in corniced and pilastered doorpiece to outer right.

BOWED CORNER: bowed glass to shop; pilaster strips, channelled to 1st floor; shaped parapet to oriel; tripartite window above; parapet to roofline, balustered to centre.

N (NORTH BANK STREET ELEVATION): regularly fenestrated; large slate-hung timber pedimented dormers (1898) to attic.

Predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case windows; some 12-pane glazing. Grey slates. Broad brick stack to outer left, cement-rendered wallhead stack to right at Bank Street; corniced ashlar wallhead stack to left at North Bank Street, all with circular cans.

Statement of Interest

The Dean of Guild Plans (for Edinburgh Corporation Tramways) show the corner cut off this plain tenement, and the addition of the bowed shop and oriel, in order to ease traffic flow on the Mound. A blue plaque on the E wall indicates the birthplace of Sir Robert Philip, pioneer of the fight against tuberculosis.

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