Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

46-66 (EVEN NOS) HOME STREET, 1 AND 3 LOCHRIN PLACE AND 2 AND 4 LOCHRIN BUILDINGSLB47784

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
01/02/2000
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 24904 72810
Coordinates
324904, 672810

Description

Dunn and Findlay, 1897. 4-storey and attic almost symmetrical tenement block with Jacobean detailing; shops at ground floor and flats above. Polished yellow sandstone ashlar. Cornice band between ground and 1st floor (egg and dart moulding to underside); cill courses at 1st and 2nd floors; eaves cornice. Windows in moulded surrounds, corniced at 1st floor, projecting cills at 3rd. Mansard roof, finialled, pyramidally-roofed central block and finialled slated ogee-roofed corner towers. Dormerheaded windows to attic (segmental pediments to single windows, piend roofs to stone-mullioned bipartites) above eaves cornice, and canted bays with scalloped parapets.

E (HOME STREET) ELEVATION: slightly advanced central block with entrance to tenement stair - timber panelled door with plate glass fanlight in depressed-arched moulded surround with carved Mannerist mask on key-block - in centre at ground, stone-mullioned tripartite windows at 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors. 5 flanking bays to left, 6 to right; bipartites to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors to outer right and left bays, with segmental-headed dormer above to left, piend-roofed to right; canted bays with tripartite dormers above in 2nd and 4th bays from left, 3rd and 5th bays from right, alternating with narrow bays with segmental-headed dormers to attic.

Entrances to corner shops in round-arched stop-chamfered surrounds with scrolled key consoles; swept to bowed 3-light windows at 1st and 2nd floors, polygonal at 3rd and attic; decorative carved detail between windows at attic level. Decorative moulded pilasters remain between some shops.

N (LOCHRIN PLACE) AND S (LOCHRIN BUILDINGS) ELEVATIONS: canted bays over shops to W, with piend-roofed bipartite dormers above. 3 bays to E: timber panelled doors to flats with plate glass fanlights in depressed-arched stop-chamfered surrounds; single and bipartite windows regularly disposed above, and segmental-pedimented dormers to attic.

Predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Graded grey slates. Double-corniced stacks (some rebuilt) with circular cans at wallheads (to side elevations) and ridges. Cast-iron gutters and down pipes with some decorative hoppers.

Statement of Special Interest

The tenement at 26-44 Home Street, 1 and 3 Lochrin Terrace and 2 and 6 Lochrin Place (listed separately) was designed as a matching pair to this one by the same architects. Designed by Dunn and Findlay for developer James Anderson. Built on the site of Lochrin House and the Lochrin Distillery. A well-designed and executed piece of urban design, which confidently addresses its important site. The flats, intended for the upper end of the rental market, provided spacious accommodation and, as the Dean of Guild drawings show, were intended from the outset to have both flushing toilets and baths.

References

Bibliography

Dean of Guild (Edinburgh) 30th July 1896. RSA 1897 (THE RSA EXHIBITORS 1826-1990 vol1p467). Gifford, McWilliam and Walker EDINBURGH (1984) p 266. Glendinning, MacInnes and MacKechnie A HISTORY OF SCOTTISH ARCHITECTURE p305.

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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