Detail of doorways to Working Men's Home, 70-76 Grove Street, Edinburgh.

Description Detail of doorways to Working Men's Home, 70-76 Grove Street, Edinburgh.

Date 4/8/2014

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

Catalogue Number DP 204095

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content The building currently known as Brooks Hotel, at Nos 70-76 Grove Street, is the only listed building in Grove Street south of the former Caledonian Railway (now the West Approach Road). It was built in 1864 to designs by the architect Frederick Thomas Pilkington (1832-98) and can be seen as a sister building to the more ornamental Nos 158-64 Fountainbridge. Nos 70-76 Grove Street was built as the first Edinburgh Industrial Brigade Home for Helping Destitute Working Lads and functioned as such until 1899. From c.1900 until the 1970s it operated as under the name Grove House, advertising itself as a ‘superior lodging-house for working men', before being converted into a hotel (the Herald House Hotel). More recently (2013), it was refurbished as the upmarket Brooks Hotel. This shows a detail of the two entrance doorways at the centre of the building. The doorway to the left is architraved with fluted brackets and a cornice, while the doorway to the right has a corniced lintel and fanlight. There is a carved inscription within the lintel on the doorway to the left, based on Matthew 25: 35-36: 'I was a stranger and you welcomed me in; I was hungry and you gave me food; I was naked and you clothed me'.

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