Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

90-98 (EVEN NOS) FOUNTAINBRIDGE, SCOTTISH MIDLAND CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY, FORMERLY ST CUTHBERT'S CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION, INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALLSLB28777

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
01/06/1979
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 24641 72946
Coordinates
324641, 672946

Description

Hippolyte J Blanc, 1880. Extended westward, T P Marwick, 1904, rear brick bakery after infill of Port Hamilton, 1922. 4-storey asymmetrical 8-bay U-plan baronial style building; 2-storey corner turrets. Stugged coursed sandstone ashlar to S elevation and central tower bay of W elevation; sandstone rubble at ground to W elevation, stugged coursed sandstone at upper levels; squared and snecked stugged sandstone to E elevation; brick to N elevation. Architraved dividing string courses; imitation gargoyle spouts breaking uppermost course; spouts to moulded band course of turrets; crowstepped gables; moulded pedimented dormerheads; moulded architraves to 1st floor windows; stone mullions to bi- and tripartite windows; strip quoins; long and short surrounds to upper storey windows.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 4 bays to left 1880, 4 bays to right 1904. Off-centre elaborately carved and moulded doorpiece; recessed timber door; 'St Cuthbert's Association' inscribed in relief beneath 3 decorative panels above; tripartite window inscribed panel breaking string course; bipartite window to 2nd floor; crowstepped corbelled gable to 3rd floor; single window; colonnettes; moulded pediment. Shouldered pilasters to shopfront in 3 bays to right; single, bipartite and tripartite windows to 1st floor; single windows to 2nd and 3rd floors, except bipartite window to outer right of 2nd floor; 2 dormer heads to left. Shouldered pilasters to shop front in 4 bays to left; 4 bipartite windows to 1st and 2nd floors; projecting cornice beneath string course above 1st floor (2 bays to left only); single windows to 3rd floor; 2 dormerheads and single-bay crowstepped gable to bays to left; small machicolated parapet; crowstepped gable; 2 dormer heads.

E (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2 single windows to 1st floor flanking central recessed blind panel; single window at 2nd floor; moulded plaque breaking string course to right; single window to left of 3rd floor; crowstep to right. Modern extension at NE.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: 8-bay, with bartizan tower to outer right. Near central entrance tower with pyramidal roof; flat-roofed single storey addition to ground; arched opening; single windows to intermediate levels of upper floors; bracketed balcony to uppermost window; linking slim giant pilasters, scrolled at base; hood-moulded pediment; keystoned, recessed oculus; finialled, corniced, pyramidal roof, swept at eaves.

Bipartite windows to 1st and 2nd floors of 2 bays to right; single pedimented to 3rd floor; finials; Single windows to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors of 2 crowstepped gabled bays to outer right. 2-storey pepperpot roofed bartizan to outer right. Bipartite windows to all floors in 3 bays to left, excepting bay beside tower with tripartite windows. Pediment style crenellations with bartizan to outer left.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: brick frontage, curved to line of Union Canal (infilled 1921); semi-circular stair turret to outer right.

2- and 4-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof with grey slate gables; conical roofs with finials to turrets; crowstepped gablehead and apex stacks.

INTERIOR: Surviving decorative lift and lift shaft to No 92.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped red sandstone boundary wall; modern gates and railings.

Statement of Special Interest

A good later Victorian example of strong Baronial character, with added interest provided by the rear brick elevation, used as a bakery.

References

Bibliography

City Archives, Dean of Guild Records, 05/02/1880 27/04/1904, and 30/11/1922; Gifford, McWilliam and Walker EDINBURGH (1988), p264.

About Listed Buildings

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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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