Description

Circa 1890. A 4-storey corner tenement with shops at the ground floor and Free Renaissance detailing. Built of cream sandstone polished ashlar. There is a continuous cornice with a blocking course above the shopfronts, a cill course at 2nd floor and a bracketted eaves cornice with delicate iron brattishing. There are angled pilasters which are moulded and pedimented at ground floor. They are channelled at 1st and 2nd floor and panelled at 3rd with coped dies above eaves level. There are architraved windows which are scrolled and pedimented at 1st floor, corniced at 2nd floor and shouldered and keystoned with bracketted cills at 3rd floor.

GREAT JUNCTION STREET ELEVATION (Northeast): 5-bay elevation. 2-leaf panelled common stair doorway off centre; shops flanking, mostly altered or boxed-in, No 189 tiled butcher shop, No 199 mosaic doorway (Gray & Co). Bipartite windows to outer left; single windows to remaining bays.

BANGOR ROAD ELEVATION (Northwest): 5-bay including canted corner bay to outer left, round-arched keystoned doorway (now blocked), 3-storey canted bay corbelled above ground floor with initialled panel (?H G?) above 2nd floor. Blank bay to the right. Single windows to bay to right of centre. Bipartite windows to remaining bays.

2 wallhead stacks. Timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing, some 4-pane. Downpipes recesses.

INTERIOR: not seen 1993.

Statement of Interest

Previous listed building record noted that the building was shown as the property of Henry Gray on a Dean of Guild drawing of 1893 for the neighbouring tenement.

Statutory address changed and listed building record revised in 2018. Previously listed as "191-201 (Odd Nos) Great Junction Street and 3 and 5 Bangor Road, Edinburgh".

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56631458

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Recommended Books

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings