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69 George Street, Edinburgh

A Category A Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9533 / 55°57'11"N

Longitude: -3.2002 / 3°12'0"W

OS Eastings: 325152

OS Northings: 674009

OS Grid: NT251740

Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.8D

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.TM8J

Plus Code: 9C7RXQ3X+8W

Entry Name: 69 George Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 69 and 69A George Street

Listing Date: 13 January 1966

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 367451

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28844

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 69 George Street

ID on this website: 200367451

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Bank building

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Description

George Washington Browne, 1905. Large 4-storey and attic Francois Ier bank on corner site. Polished cream ashlar sandstone. Mullioned and transomed windows. Base course and cill course at ground. Ground floor cornice/1st floor cill course articulated by pedestals, supporting pilasters framing upper floor windows grouped in tripartite arrangement; panelled pilasters at 1st floor, giant order Corinthian pilasters to 2nd and 3rd floors; enriched aprons and frieze. Lavish dentilled cornice with pierced parapet. Curved corner expressed by windows as above, with elaborate pilastered and segmental pedimented doorway at ground. 3 bays as above to each elevation.

GEORGE STREET ELEVATION: broad arched window to left at ground, secondary door to right with pair of later small bipartite windows between, perhaps replacing shopfront. Small corniced windows at each floor flank centrepiece; attic gable with segmental pedimented bipartite.

HANOVER STREET ELEVATION: bipartite window to right at ground; corniced windows at 2nd and 3rd floors with wallhead stack above. 3-bay windowpiece to left with double transomed windows at ground, and gable as above.

Timber casement windows. Piended and gabled roof; grey-green slates. Corniced and pilastered wallhead stacks; grey slates.

INTERIOR: Telling Room completely refitted by Henry Wylie and Partners, 1964.

Statement of Interest

One of several branches designed for the British Linen Bank by Washington Browne.

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