King's Theatre (Former): Continental Restaurant & Ballroom
Date 2 August 2000
Event ID 894521
Category Management
Type Site Management
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/894521
3 storey 4 bay former restaurant/ billiards room to the former King's Theatre and Hippodrome, a large red ashlar theatre, 3-storey front, E elevation stepped and treated in American manner. Encircling ground floor band course. The Continental Ballroom/King's Billiard Room (entered from No 21 Cowgate) has similar plasterwork to the main theatre block with a barrel-vaulted top-lit ceiling.
Built as the King's Theatre and Hippodrome, the auditorium was converted to a cinema in 1928. The name was changed to 'Gaumont' in1950 and again to 'Odeon' in 1973. Closed as a cinema in 1982, part of the building was subsequently run as a bingo hall and then partly as a nightclub. (Historic Environment Scotland List Entry)
