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Latitude: 55.9904 / 55°59'25"N
Longitude: -3.3964 / 3°23'46"W
OS Eastings: 312989
OS Northings: 678372
OS Grid: NT129783
Mapcode National: GBR 20.VQXL
Mapcode Global: WH6S9.SPWK
Plus Code: 9C7RXJR3+5F
Entry Name: Queensferry Arms Hotel, 17 High Street, South Queensferry
Listing Name: 17 High Street, Queensferry Arms Hotel
Listing Date: 22 February 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 386300
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB40376
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: South Queensferry, 17 High Street, Queensferry Arms Hotel
ID on this website: 200386300
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Almond
Traditional County: West Lothian
Tagged with: Hotel
Late 17th century; much altered. 2-storey and attic, L-plan hotel incorporating earlier house. Painted harl. Painted base course; painted masonry surrounds. 2 crowstepped gables to principal elevation.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: central door; canopy over with scrolled wrought-iron brackets and cresting; dormer window in attic above. Flanking single windows; large tripartite windows at 1st floor above in gable. Panelled door in bay at far right of ground floor with similarly detailed canopy; wrought iron hotel sign above. Small single window in bay at far left; names of hotel and Cycling Association sign above.
W ELEVATION: adjoining buildings
E ELEVATION: single storey modern extension (Arrol Suite).
N ELEVATION: 4-bay, altered. V-plan extension in 2nd and 3rd bays at 1st floor with fire stair; canted bay at right; 2-storey canted windows at 2nd and 3rd floors in outer bays; irregular fenestration.
Timber sash and case windows to principal elevation; modern glazing to rear. Grey slate roof; crowstepped skews; rendered gablehead stacks.
INTERIOR: not seen 2000
The steeply pitched roof is characteristic of late 17th century architecture. The large crowstepped dormers are later additions; small windows, like those of the ground floor, were used during the late 17th and early eighteenth centuries. The large windows belong to guest bedrooms thus were probably added later when the building became a hotel. Using crowsteps integrates the dormers into the design, although do not prevent the windows from swamping the compostion.
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