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Latitude: 55.9516 / 55°57'5"N
Longitude: -3.2003 / 3°12'1"W
OS Eastings: 325145
OS Northings: 673829
OS Grid: NT251738
Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.7Z
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.TN7R
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ2X+MV
Entry Name: 100A Princes Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 99B, 100 and 100A Princes Street, Incorporating Royal Overseas House
Listing Date: 20 February 1985
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 369532
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29510
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 100a Princes Street
ID on this website: 200369532
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Hotel building
Robert Paterson, 1879. Symmetrical 4-storey attic and garret, large 3-bay Free Renaissance hotel. Polished cream sandstone ashlar (stonecleaned). At ground, modern granite-faced shops crowd central entrance comprised of coupled fluted Corinthian columns and balustraded parapet; broad 2-leaf panelled doors. Upper floors with broad projecting outer bays framed by channelled pilasters, with canted windows to 1st and 2nd floors, bipartite windows to 3rd, balustraded parapets interrupted by arched and pedimented wallhead attic dormers and garret oculi in pavilion roofs with elaborate cast-iron brattishing. Central bay with pair of windows to each floor, those at 1st floor linked by scrolled broken pediment and cartouche of Windsor Castle, those at 2nd floor with consoled pediments; paired wallhead dormers again linked by broken pediment with ball finial; pair of garret oculi.
Timber sash and case plate glass windows. Grey slates; ashlar coped skews, large corniced ashlar stacks at gables and centre.
INTERIOR: elaborate entrance Hall with fluted Corinthian pilasters; cantilevered dog-leg stair with timber barley twist banisters to 1st floor, cast-iron to upper floors. Altered but plain rooms bely rich entrance; 1 surviving grey marble chimneypiece to front at 1st floor.
Built as the Windsor Hotel for Albert Thiem; extended through to W (above Boots). Paterson also designed the Cafe Royal hotel in West Register Street (see separate listing).
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