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Summary

Description

Dunn & Findlay, circa 1905. 4-storey 15-bay tenement; cream sandstone, ashlar front, squared and snecked rubble rear and side; 1st and 2nd floor cill course; eaves cornice; 3rd floor windows break parapet in mansard attic with ovolo moulded reveals; architraved windows; Nos 212-216 corniced 1st floor windows; Nos 218-226 Gibbsian surround to 1st floor windows; semi-circular pedimented dormerheads; ashlar mullions; moulded doorways with panelled doors and rectangular plate glass fanlights. SE (BRUNTSFIELD PLACE) ELEVATION: Nos 212-216 6-bay tenement with central doorway to common stair flanked by main door flats; centre bays with single windows; bipartite windows to bays to left and right of centre; projecting rectangular outer bays with bipartite windows, 3rd floor windows with half-piend finialled roofs. Nos 218-222 6-bay tenement with central common stair doorway flanked by main door flats; centre bays with single windows and 3rd floor windows with triangular dormerheads; bays to left and right of centre with bipartite windows; full-height canted windows breaking parapet with half-pyramidal finialled roofs to outer bays. Nos 224 and 226 3-bay tenement common stair doorway to right, main door flat to left; single windows to centre bay; full-height canted bay with half-pyramidal roof to left bay; bipartite windows to right bay. S ELEVATION: banded cill courses to 1st and 2nd floor; single windows to centre bay; gabled bay with apex stack to right; wallhead stack to left. Timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing; green slate mansard roof, lead flashings; 1 corniced apex, 1 wallhead stack (see above); moulded eaves gutters and gutterheads. INTERIOR: not seen 1992. Low stepped rubble boundary wall to front.

Statement of Special Interest

This tenement forms part of the development of the corner site of Bruntsfield Place and Merchiston Place. Although the building warrant was applied for in 1902, the actual building was delayed by controversy around the proposed bank use of the corner property which was contrary to the feu charter which forbade shop use. The block finally appears on the 1906 OS.

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