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Latitude: 55.946 / 55°56'45"N
Longitude: -3.2051 / 3°12'18"W
OS Eastings: 324832
OS Northings: 673205
OS Grid: NT248732
Mapcode National: GBR 8LJ.80
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.QTY3
Plus Code: 9C7RWQWV+9X
Entry Name: 119-123 Lothian Road And 5 Bread Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 119-123 (Odd Nos) Lothian Road and 5 Bread Street
Listing Date: 29 March 2001
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 368748
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29270
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 119 - 123 Lothian Road And 5 Bread Street
ID on this website: 200368748
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Bank building
William Burn, 1820-25, inter-war shopfront. 4-storey plain classical corner tenement block (5 bays to Lothian Road, 6 to Bread Street) with later shops to corner at ground floor. Cream sandstone ashlar. Panelled aprons to 1st floor windows, corniced to Lothian Road; eaves cornice and blocking course. Shop on corner (formerly bank): cream ashlar, granite below cills; modern glazed timber door in consoled and corniced moulded surround; architraved windows (surmounted by decorative cartouches in 2 outer bays) flanked by panelled pilasters with foliate capitals.
12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to 1st floor, predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case windows above. Corniced, rendered stacks with circular cans.
Burn's plain palace block echoes his design for Nos 125-165 Lothian Road (for Major Weir), forming an impressive piece of urban design in an important situation. The Merchant Company had adopted William Burn's plan for the Grindlay family's Orchardfield estate in 1820.
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