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Latitude: 55.9898 / 55°59'23"N
Longitude: -3.3951 / 3°23'42"W
OS Eastings: 313065
OS Northings: 678300
OS Grid: NT130783
Mapcode National: GBR 20.VR6W
Mapcode Global: WH6S9.TQG1
Plus Code: 9C7RXJQ3+WX
Entry Name: Forth Bridge Hotel, 36 High Street, South Queensferry
Listing Name: 36 High Street, the Ferry Tap Ale House, and 1-3 (Inclusive Nos) Forth Court at Rear
Listing Date: 19 December 1979
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 386311
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB40385
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200386311
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Almond
Traditional County: West Lothian
Tagged with: Hotel
Front gablet dated 1674; panel dated 1683; rebuilt 1890s. Scots Baronial pub and tenement; T-plan. 3-storey and attic; 3-bay; near symmetrical. Painted harl, painted ashlar margins. Central 2-window gable corbelled out at 2nd floor.
N (PRINCIPLE) ELEVATION: pub front in left bays; tripartite; flanking double doors framed by slim fluted pilasters; deep entablature and cornice; bipartite in right bay; nw corner attached to stairs leading to terrace. Paired window in centre of 1st floor; single storey canted bay to left; tripartite to right; bipartite in left bay of 2nd floor; paired window in centre; tripartite in right bay. Small window in gablet; platform attic dormers.
E ELEVATION: blind gable end attached to stairs leading to Vennel. Rear wing; bipartite to 1st floor; single windows at 2nd; platform dormers.
S ELEVATION: irregular fenestration.
W ELEVATION: blind gable end. Rear wing; bipartites to 1st floor; single windows at 2nd; platform dormers; entrance to flats in re-entrant angle.
Varied glazing patterns. Overhanging slated roof; timber brackets; crowstepped skews; straight skews to rear wing; coped stacks at gableheads.
It is a very distinctive building in the centre of the town. The Ferry Tap makes a striking partner for the adjacent Black Castle.
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