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Latitude: 55.9467 / 55°56'48"N
Longitude: -3.1952 / 3°11'42"W
OS Eastings: 325452
OS Northings: 673272
OS Grid: NT254732
Mapcode National: GBR 8NH.8R
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.WSNK
Plus Code: 9C7RWRW3+MW
Entry Name: Science Block, George Heriot's School, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh
Listing Name: Lauriston Place, George Heriot's School, Science Block
Listing Date: 3 July 1986
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 365356
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27979
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, Lauriston Place, George Heriot's School, Science Block
ID on this website: 200365356
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: School building
John Chesser, 1887, incorporating Alexander Black's 1883 primary school. Long single storey and basement (2-stories to rear) piend-roofed asymmetrical school block with Scots Renaissance and Jacobean details. Coursed sandstone. Parapet with loopholes. Buckle quoins. Regularly fenestrated; windows in moulded surrounds.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 10 bays to left, regularly fenestrated. Advanced 3-bay entrance block to right: square-plan entrance tower: 2-leaf timber door with arched plate glass fanlight in key-blocked round-arched opening, flanked by Doric pilasters on pedestals with open pediment containing strapwork decoration; raised parapet with carved decoration under cornice and inscription (SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL DEPARTMENTS, 1887) above, slightly recessed flanking bays with single windows and decorative parapet. 2 bays to right partly obscured by later additions.
12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Piended grey slate roof. Cast-iron down pipes with decorative hoppers.
The A Group comprises the main building, the Examination Hall, the Chemistry Block, the Preparatory and Technology Departments, the Science Block and the gatehouse, terraces, War Memorial, boundary walls, railings and gates.
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