Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

LAURISTON PLACE, GEORGE HERIOT'S SCHOOL, EXAMINATION HALLLB27978

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Group Category Details
100000019 - see notes
Date Added
03/07/1986
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 25431 73153
Coordinates
325431, 673153

Description

Donald A Gow, 1894. Double-height T-plan Scots Renaissance and Jacobean hall building. Coursed yellow sandstone ashlar. Single bay square central entrance/stair tower with octagonal ogee-roofed belfry. Pitched roofed glazed metal structure to roof of hall. Battlemented parapet with loopholes and bartizans. Base course; dividing band between ground and 1st floors of entrance block; cill band at 1st; buckle quoins. Aedicular windows with strapwork pediments.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: entrance in slightly advanced central tower, flanked by Doric columns on high pedestals; broken pediment containing crest; 2-leaf timber panelled storm door (glazed inner doors) with plate glass fanlight in round-arched opening with enriched key console. Single window at 1st floor, monogram and date (1894) in panel above. Arcaded, louvred openings with enriched key consoles to belfry. Regularly fenestrated 2-bay flanking sections; recessed outer bays with double-height windows.

N ELEVATION: slightly advanced centre bay with double-height tripartite window. Double-height bipartite windows in flanking bays. Single windows to ground and 1st floors, and aediculed door to right of N return to entrance block to outer left. Recessed outer right bay: door with pilaster strips and segmental pediment to ground, single window above.

S ELEVATION: double-height tripartite window in slightly advanced centre bay. Double-height bipartite windows in flanking bays. S return to entrance block to outer right: single windows to ground and 1st floors, aediculed door to left.

INTERIOR: hammer-beamed roof to double-height hall (now horizontally divided). Central gallery at W end, platform opposite.

Small-pane glazing in sash and case windows to projecting entrance block; border glazing in stone-mullioned and -transomed windows to hall. Grey slates; lead roofs to bartizans and belfry. Cast-iron down pipes with decorative hoppers.

Statement of Special Interest

The A Group comprises the main building, the Examination Hall, the Chemistry Block, the Preparatory and Technology Departments, the Science Block and the gatehouse, terraces, war memorial, boundary walls, railings and gates.

References

Bibliography

Gifford, McWilliam and Walker EDINBURGH (1984) p 182.

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)

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