Berkeley Casino, 2 Rutland Place, Edinburgh

Heritage listing

Category B Group Category Details 100000019 - see notes Date Added 14/12/1970 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 24646 73627 Coordinates 324646, 673627 — David Cousin, 1842-3; re-faced at rear, Wardrop and Reid, 1882; later alterations. 3-storey, 2-bay neo-Norman former church. Polished cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings; droved sandstone ashlar to basement at rear. NW (Rutland Place) elevation: base course; cavetto moulded string course to ground floor, at springing of round-arched openings; overlapping blind arcaded frieze below chevron-patterned cornice to 1st floor of bow; chevron-patterned cill course to blind arcade at 1st floor to bay to right, with cill course to smaller blind arcade above (obscured by bow at left); cill course to both bays at 2nd floor; band course following gableheads; coped skews. Bays divided at 2nd floor by piers with nook shaft angles, dentil cornices and arcaded caps. Rear (Rutland Street) elevation: band course between basement and ground floor; cill course to 1st floor; complex round-arch spanning paired-arch frieze below cornice and parapet. Chamfered reveals to mullioned and transomed basement windows; nook shafts supporting round-arched bipartites at ground floor; similar at 1st floor with spanning round arch and centred oculus. NW (RUTLAND PLACE) ELEVATION: 2-bay; paired gables; 2-storey bow to ground and 1st floors of bay to left, nook shafts supporting multi-moulded round-arched doorpiece with pitched roof to bay to ground floor; modern glazed 2-leaf doors with infilled semicircular fanlight; carved blind fretwork beneath gablehead with dentil moulding; oculus to left of doorway; paired doorways to ground floor at bay to right, converted to window with dentil-moulded apron at

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.