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Detail of ornate doorway to 92 Grove Street/158-164 Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, taken from the south-east.
DP 203642
Description Detail of ornate doorway to 92 Grove Street/158-164 Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, taken from the south-east.
Date 4/8/2014
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number DP 203642
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content The oldest building in this sector of the north side of Fountainbridge is at Nos 158-64 Fountainbridge. This Category-A listed building was built in 1864 to designs by the architect Frederick Thomas Pilkington (1832-98). This engaging take on the traditional tenement form is enlivened by an unusually ornate three-dimensional façade. The ground floor was built to be used as a shop (and a Post Office, as shown on the Ordnance Survey 3rd Edition 1:1056 map of 1894). This shows the entrance doorway to the shop, which has ornate floral carvings on the polished ashlar doorway surround. Above the doorway there are three elaborate carved bracketed corbels surmounted by full-height curved bay window on the corner.
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