Stepping Stones Theatre, West Bow, Edinburgh

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 14/12/1970 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 25523 73425 Coordinates 325523, 673425 — Later 18th century. 5-storey and attic 4-bay terraced tenement block with restaurant at ground floor. Ashlar (painted to ground). Arched pend (Edmonstone's Close) to outer right. Cill band to 1st floor; projecting cills at 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors. Long and short quoins. Round-arched entrance in 2nd bay from left flanked by round-arched windows (modern glazing). Regular fenestration above. 2 3-light dormers to attic. In Edmonstone's Close: 6-storey rubble drum staircase with timber panelled doors to ground (112B); 3-storey former warehouse to right and earlier warehouses to rear (see Notes). 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Corniced end stacks with circular cans. — Dean of Guild plans are an application by Thomas Edmonstone to build the 3-storey warehouse in Edmonstone's Close, to the right at the rear, and show the already existing buildings, including the drum staircase. The warehouses to the rear were the former home of the Traverse Theatre, the scene of many important theatrical innovations in the 1970's.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.