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Detail of ornate ground floor window and doorway on 158-164 Fountainbridge/92 Grove Street, Edinburgh, taken from the south.

DP 203652

Description Detail of ornate ground floor window and doorway on 158-164 Fountainbridge/92 Grove Street, Edinburgh, taken from the south.

Date 4/8/2014

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number DP 203652

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 shouldered, segmental-arched plate glass shop windows and doorways on Fountainbridge elevation, with floral carvings to the keystones and corbel brackets between and above the windows.

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1461208

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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