Detail of first, second and third floor windows at Working Men's Home, 70-76 Grove Street, Edinburgh.

Description Detail of first, second and third floor windows at 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 204103

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 the third bay from left on the front elevation, with recessed windows, including chamfered hoodmould at first floor level, and an ogival window at third floor within the tapering gable.

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