Description

Circa 1775; interior by David Bryce, 1835; shopfront renewed 1910, and again 1993. 3-storey and attic 3-bay former classical house, with shopfront built out at ground. Droved cream sandstone ashlar. 3-bay shopfront with splayed central entrance and panelled door to upper floors to right contained below consoled cornice and fascia. Lugged architraves to 1st floor windows; centre window with consoled pediment, flanking ones corniced; pair of flagpoles at 2nd floor; eaves cornice. Pair of bowed piend-roofed slate-hung dormers.

Expressed to rear as single storey and basement elevation to lane.

Timber sash and case windows; plate glass with 12-pane to dormers. Ashlar coped skews; rebuilt stone stack to E; grey slates.

INTERIOR: very fine decorative plasterwork and chimneypieces to whole shop; main space incorporating top-lit saloon delineated by columns; offices to rear.

Statement of Interest

Probably the finest surviving 19th century shop interior in Edinburgh. Converted by Bryce for the jewellers J & G Hunter Marshall. Nos 79-87 (and perhaps No 77) were built together on a line and subsequently received identical dressings at 1st floor (No 83 was completely rebuilt) - see separate listings. Part of the original fabric of Edinburgh?s New Town, one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain. A Group with Nos 77-87 (odd nos) George Street.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17569647

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