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Latitude: 55.9608 / 55°57'38"N
Longitude: -3.1665 / 3°9'59"W
OS Eastings: 327274
OS Northings: 674812
OS Grid: NT272748
Mapcode National: GBR 8VB.3Q
Mapcode Global: WH6SM.BFDQ
Plus Code: 9C7RXR6M+8C
Entry Name: 64-66 Albion Road, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 64-66 Albion Road, with Wall and Railings to Pavement
Listing Date: 12 September 1997
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 391239
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44625
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 64-66 Albion Road
ID on this website: 200391239
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Leith Walk
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Office building
Circa 1900. Built for Redpath Brown and Co, as St Andrew's Steelworks. English Renaissance office building. 2-storey 3-bay. Red sandstone ashlar to front, bull-faced rubble to side and rear with ashlar dressings. Band course and cornice. Balustrade. Stone mullions and transoms.
NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Architraved and corniced doorpiece, panel with RB and Co in centre of lintel, bipartite window above in pilaster-framed surround with segmental pediment. Full-height canted bays to each side with dividing cornices and Elizabethan 'hall' windows to ground, smaller windows at 1st floor, all mullioned and transomed, those at 1st floor flanked by single light transomed windows. Bays surmounted by parapets with round-arched panels bearing curved armorial reliefs.
SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: fenestration asymmetrical. Ashlar wallhead coping swept up at intervals.
NW: attached to neighbouring tenement.
SW: former steelworks adjoined by bricklink, not included in current listing.
Timber sash and case behind transoms to front, 8-pane sash and case to side, flat roof.
LOW WALL: coursed rubble-faced sandstone, moulded coping, corner piers with ball finials, ornate cast-iron railings enclosing shallow forecourts and angled to entrance doorway.
INTERIOR: not seen 1996.
OUTBUILDINGS: extensive later industrial/warehousing to S and E not included.
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