Portobello Baptist Church, 185 Portobello High Street, Portobello, Edinburgh

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 04/09/1995 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 30545 73823 Coordinates 330545, 673823 — David Bryce, 1862-1868 with later alterations. 3-storey, 5-bay Franco-Flemish building, now subdivided but formerly in use as town hall. Polished ashlar. Base course, cornice above fascia of Nos 183-189; cill course, stop-chamfered arrises to lugged and tabbed openings, cornice and coped blocking course. NE (PORTOBELLO HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: windows to each floor and bay. Doorways to centre, in bay to right of centre, to outer right and between outer and penultimate bay to left. Panelled door to centre with architraved doorpiece and deep fanlight above, (now with painted board). 1st and 2nd floors of bay to centre advanced and corbelled. Tripartite windows to each floor with carved plaque above (see Notes); cast-iron brackets to projecting gabled clock above. Small-paned shopfront to right of centre with fascia above. Plate glass shop front to left of centre. SW (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen, 1994. 12-pane timber sash and case windows to upper storeys, 8-pane timber sash and case windows to tripartites. Grey slate roof; gabled louvered lucarnes with cast-iron finials.. Gargoyles at eaves level flanking bay to centre and to outer left and right. Rendered and coped stack to NW and ashlar coped stack to SE; cast-iron rainwater goods. INTERIOR: not seen, 1994. — The plaque says that the building was erected in 1868 under the direction of A C Home M D Provost. However Baird (p 395) says that the hall was erected by a private company with Mr Home as chairman, commencing in 1862. The site chosen was that "upon which Portobello House had stood since 1753", when it was owned by the entrepreneurial, George Hamilton. The feu was at t

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.