Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

88, 89, 90, 91 GILES STREETLB27453

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
05/03/1991
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 26925 76224
Coordinates
326925, 676224

Description

Joseph Marr Johnston, dated 1903. 2-storey, attic and basement stripped Edwardian Baroque polychrome office and warehouse building with angled corner feature. Red brick with cream ashlar dressings, steel beam construction. Corner office block with ashlar bands every

6 courses to ground floor and angle feature; band courses framing 1st floor windows; ashlar voussoirs and corniced impost course to round- arched windows at ground floor; small square windows at 1st floor; modern velux rooflights to mansard roof.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 5-bay with parapet of 3 centre bays raised to 3-storey; chamfered centre bay with round-arched raised entrance door with channelled ashlar ingoes, moulded 2-leaf door and semi-circular decorative dated iron grille fanlight. Flanking outer bays with broad round-arched windows at ground floor over paired barred openings of raised basement. Raised parapet of centre bays with bull?s-eye windows with distinctive raised keystones; eaves cornice.

SW ELEVATION: 5-bay; doorway to outer left with tall segmental-arched barred fanlight. Partly recessed arched pend opening with sliding track door to left of centre. Tall windows to right bays.

Ground floor windows of principal elevation with original radial astragalled glazing over plate glass; small-pane hopper windows to warehouse bays; modern windows to upper levels. Purple slate mansard roof, small wallhead stack to SW.

INTERIOR: tiled vestibule, inner door with Ionic pilasters and semi- circular stained glass fanlight with astragal petals.

References

Bibliography

Dean of Guild (Leith).

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

While Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating listed buildings, the planning authority is responsible for determining what is covered by the listing, including what is listed through curtilage. However, for listed buildings designated or for listings amended from 1 October 2015, legal exclusions to the listing may apply.

If part of a building is not listed, it will say that it is excluded in the statutory address and in the statement of special interest in the listed building record. The statement will use the word 'excluding' and quote the relevant section of the 1997 Act. Some earlier listed building records may use the word 'excluding', but if the Act is not quoted, the record has not been revised to reflect subsequent legislation.

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