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Science Block, George Heriot's School, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

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

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Description

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.

Statement of Interest

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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