Description

Charles Leadbetter, 1859. 3-storey 6-bay terraced tenement block (4 storeys to Candlemaker Row) with shops to ground floor. Ashlar (painted to ground); squared and snecked rubble to Candlemaker Row.

E (GEORGE IV BRIDGE) ELEVATION: cornice to ground floor; dividing band between 1st and 2nd floors; eaves cornice and blocking course. Windows to upper floors in roll-moulded surrounds. Modern fascia to shop to right; timber panelled door with plate glass fanlight to flats at centre; original shopfront to left with glazed timber panelled door, plate glass fanlight, chamfered surrounds to windows. Piend-roofed dormer to outer right.

W (CANDLEMAKER ROW) ELEVATION: corniced shops to ground floor: timber panelled door in 2nd bay from right flanked by windows; glazed timber door in 4th bay from left, 3 windows with modern glazing to left; timber panelled door to flats to centre. Irregularly fenestrated above. Later dormers to attic.

4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to George IV Bridge, 12-pane glazing and plate glass in timber sash and case windows

to Candlemaker Row. Grey slates. Stone skews; corniced end stacks with circular cans (shouldered wallhead stack to Candlemaker Row).

Statement of Interest

Dean of Guild drawings for the former Martyrs Free Church (separately listed, now Frankenstein Pub) show that both the church and Nos 27-30 George IV Bridge were designed for the Reformed Presbyterian Congregation in 1859 by Charles Leadbetter. George IV Bridge formed part of Thomas Hamilton's plan for the new Southern and Western approaches to the city.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17806904

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Recommended Books

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)