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Latitude: 55.9435 / 55°56'36"N
Longitude: -3.2094 / 3°12'33"W
OS Eastings: 324558
OS Northings: 672930
OS Grid: NT245729
Mapcode National: GBR 8KJ.DX
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.NWX1
Plus Code: 9C7RWQVR+96
Entry Name: Fountainbridge Telephone Exchange, 116 Fountainbridge, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 116 Fountainbridge, Fountainbridge Telephone Exchange Including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Gates
Listing Date: 23 January 1998
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 391674
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44933
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 116 Fountainbridge, Fountainbridge Telephone Exchange
ID on this website: 200391674
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Telephone exchange
Stewart Sim, 1948-52. 4-storey Modern L-plan flat-roofed building formed by meeting of rectangular and bow-ended blocks. Polished cream sandstone ashlar. Large steel-framed windows; white-painted metal aprons to fenestration of rectangular block; protruding cills to bowed block.
SE (FOUNTAINBRIDGE) ELEVATION: 3-bay. Cill course; plain giant pilasters dividing glazed screen wall.
NE (GARDNER'S CRESCENT) ELEVATION: 10-bay. Recessed glazed 4 bay screen wall to outer left; ridged pilasters. Single bay return adjoins regularly fenestrated 2-bay bow; door at ground; lintel course extending to 6 bays to right; glazing to SE side of staircase extends full-height of upper floors; roof level higher than adjoining blocks; metal structure with satellite antennae to roof. 6 bays to right regularly fenestrated.
SW ELEVATION: 7-bay. As SE elevation, with metal semi-circular projections between floors to bays to inside of penultimate bays. Variety of machinery vents and wires attached. Plain rectangular-plan block, with 2-leaf timber door to return at ground.
Steel-framed fixed and casement windows; 6- and 9-pane to rectangular block; 6-pane to ground, 4-pane to upper floors of bow-ended block; 60-pane to SE side of staircase.
INTERIOR: not seen 1997.
BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES: coped grey sandstone ashlar boundary walls to corner of Fountainbridge and Gardner's Crescent; iron gate; sandstone ashlar piers and iron gates to entrances on Fountainbridge and Gardner's Crescent.
Stewart Sim was Senior Architect to the Ministry of Works in Scotland. The Builder wrote in 1952, "The architect has expressed in a modern way both the function of the building, itself a modern service, and the dignity of a Government undertaking."
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