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General view of the Fountainbridge Telephone Exchange, 116 Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, taken from the east.
DP 203626
Description General view of the Fountainbridge Telephone Exchange, 116 Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, taken from the east.
Date 4/8/2014
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number DP 203626
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content The second oldest building on this part of Fountainbridge is the Telephone Exchange at No 116 Fountainbridge. Following the truncation and infilling of the Union Canal to Lochrin Basin in c.1906, this site on the corner of the extended Gardner’s Crescent was left empty for many years. After World War II it was used for the construction of the Telephone Exchange, built 1948-52 and designed by architect Stewart Sim (1989-1988). Though clearly modernist in nature, it mimics the flat-faced regularity and four-storeyed height of the nearby tenements. This elevation to Gardner's Crescent has a recessed four-bayed glazed screen wall to the left with ridged pilasters. A single bay return adjoins a regularly fenestrated two-bayed bow containing an entrance doorway, and a lintel course extending to six bays on the right.
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